Prompting Skills playbook/Module 6 · Thinking with AI

Day 54 / 100 · Thinking with AI · Explaining concepts

Explain it like I'm new.

AI is endlessly patient with “explain it again.” The trick is telling it where you're starting from.

Set your level

What I Know

“I understand phone lines and the internet, but not VoIP.”

It starts from your knowledge, not from zero or from expert.

Ask for an analogy

From My World

“Explain it using something from retail.”

Analogies from your own field stick.

Test yourself

One Question

“Ask me one question to check I've got it.”

You find out now, not in the meeting.

Start from what you know. Ask where the analogy breaks.