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Your first 15 minutes.Pick three of these five small things and do them today
You don’t need a plan, a website or a big idea to begin. You need a few small actions that turn “maybe someday” into “I started.” Choose any three.
The questions friends, family and coworkers bring to you are clues to what you know best. Don’t edit, just list them. Your list stays private, on this device.
Copy this prompt into Claude and answer its questions. It’s a surprisingly fast way to see what you know from the outside.
Ask Claude
I want to figure out what I know that might be worth sharing. Interview me, one question at a time, about my work, my hobbies and the things people ask me for help with. After 10 questions, give me five topics where I seem to have real expertise, and who might want to learn each one.
Paste the prompt into Claude and fill in the [brackets] with your own details.There are more tools than ever to help you share what you know, and most are free to try. Open one of these, look around, and imagine your idea inside it.
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Browse the Library and find one person doing something like what you might want to do. Note one thing they do that you could borrow: their format, their tone, how they started.
Quick starts: crafts · food · money and work · teaching · health and life
Saying it out loud makes it real. Send this to one friend, or say it at dinner. Fill in the blank first.
I’ve been thinking about sharing what I know about ___ with people who are just starting out. You’re one of the first people I’m telling. If you were learning this, what would you most want help with?
YOU STARTED
That’s three. You’ve taken your first step.
Most people never get this far. Here’s where to go next:
- Write your niche statement: turn “I teach guitar” into something specific
- Take the Business Builder for a five-minute plan
- Read From Know to Tell, the whole journey step by step
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