Learn how to use AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to find problems, create ideas, and build solutions — just like real entrepreneurs!
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Think of it as a very smart helper that can read, write, think, and answer questions — but it's a computer program, not a human!
You taught a baby to talk by giving it millions of examples. AI was "taught" by reading billions of books, websites, and conversations. Now it can have a conversation with you, help you write stories, solve math problems, and much more!
Help write stories, essays, emails, poems, and presentations. You give the idea, AI helps with the words!
WritingAsk AI to explain anything — from how volcanoes work to how businesses make money — in simple words.
LearningStuck on a project? AI can suggest 10, 20, or even 100 different ideas in seconds!
CreativityAI can read long, boring documents and tell you only the important parts in simple language.
ResearchFrom math problems to life problems — AI can help you think through different ways to solve them.
Problem SolvingDifficult English? AI can explain it simply. Need it in another language? AI can help with that too!
LanguageAI can make mistakes. Always check important facts. AI helps you think — but YOU are the entrepreneur, the creator, the decision maker. Your ideas and your effort are what make something real.
The best entrepreneurs don't just have ideas — they first find real problems that bother real people. This is called "Problem Finding" and it's the most important skill!
Problems hide in plain sight! Pay attention to things that make you say "Ugh, I wish this was easier..." Keep a small notebook (or use your phone notes) to write down anything that bothers you.
When you find a problem, ask "WHY?" five times to understand the REAL reason behind it. This helps you find a REAL solution, not just a bandaid fix.
AI can suggest problems you might not have noticed. Here's how to ask:
A problem is worth solving when MANY people have it. Use AI to check how big a problem is!
Homework tracking, lunch queues, exam stress, noisy classrooms, library system, sports equipment sharing
Electricity bills, food wastage, elderly family members needing help, siblings fighting, organizing things
Pollution, stray animals, broken roads, no parks for kids, traffic near schools, garbage management
Not drinking enough water, bad posture from phones, unhealthy snacks, mental stress, sleep problems
Plastic waste, water wastage, food wastage, air pollution, animals losing their homes
Older people struggling with technology, differently-abled people facing barriers, farmers' challenges
Once you find a problem, you need to understand it deeply. AI is the best research assistant you'll ever have — available 24/7, never gets tired, and explains things in simple words!
| ❌ Weak Question | ✅ Stronger Question | 💡 Why it's Better |
|---|---|---|
| "Tell me about pollution" | "What are the 3 biggest types of pollution affecting children's health in cities in India? Give simple facts." | Specific topic, specific audience, clear format |
| "What is water waste?" | "How much water does an average school waste every day, and what are 5 easy ways students can save water at school?" | Specific context, asks for actionable answers |
| "How to start a business?" | "I am 12 years old and want to start a small business selling handmade bookmarks. What are the first 5 steps I should take? Explain each step simply." | Personal context, age-relevant, step-by-step format |
| "Is fast food bad?" | "Why do students eat unhealthy food at school? What are 3 things schools in other countries do to make students eat healthier? Can I do something similar?" | Explores root cause, finds solutions, personal relevance |
Use these prompt templates to research any problem. Replace the words in [brackets] with your own topic.
AI can sometimes make mistakes or mix up facts. For important information — always double check using a school library, a trusted website, or ask your teacher. Think of AI as a starting point, not the final word!
You found a problem and researched it. Now comes the most fun part — coming up with ideas to solve it! AI is an incredible brainstorming partner.
Ask AI for LOTS of ideas first — even silly ones. Then you can pick the best ones and make them better.
Once you have an idea you like, ask AI to help you improve it!
SCAMPER is a creative thinking tool. Each letter gives you a different way to improve an idea. Use this with AI for super-powered creativity!
What if you replaced one part with something else?
What if you mixed two ideas together?
How can you change the idea for a different situation?
What if you made it bigger, smaller, faster or different?
Can your idea solve other problems too?
What if you removed a part? Or flipped the idea around?
A "prompt" is what you type to the AI. The better your prompt, the better AI's answer. This is the #1 skill that separates people who get amazing results from AI versus those who get boring results!
This is the most powerful technique in this entire course. Watch what happens when you improve your prompt again and again!
Goal: Get AI to help you write a poster about "Saving Water at School"
"Write something about saving water"
A very general paragraph about how water is important and we should not waste it. No specific ideas for school. Very plain. Not very useful.
Generic, boring, not useful for the actual goal
"I need to write a poster about saving water for students in my school. Can you first give me a better prompt to use, so that when I use that prompt, I get an amazing poster? Then use that better prompt to write the poster."
1️⃣ Writes a better prompt like: "Create an eye-catching school poster for students aged 10-14 about saving water. Include 5 specific actions students can take at school, use exciting language, add a catchy title, and make it feel urgent and fun."
2️⃣ Then uses that prompt to write the actual poster — which is now much better!
Good improvement! Specific, relevant, but still room to grow
Take the improved prompt from Round 2, then ask: "Look at this prompt. How can we make it even more specific, creative, and powerful? Improve it one more time, then use it to write an even better poster."
Now AI creates a poster with: catchy title, specific numbers (like "A leaky tap wastes 200 litres a day!"), fun challenge ideas for students, specific school locations (toilets, canteen, garden), and an emotional call to action. This is genuinely excellent content!
Specific, creative, actionable, emotional, school-relevant!
This is called "Prompt Engineering" and professionals use it every day. You are not just using AI — you are teaching AI how to help you better. This skill will make you more powerful with any AI tool you ever use!
Tell AI to ACT like someone. This completely changes the quality of the answer!
Tell AI exactly HOW you want the answer to look. List? Table? Story? Steps?
For complex problems, this magic phrase makes AI think harder and give better answers!
Show AI what you WANT and what you DON'T want. Examples are incredibly powerful!
You can write your prompt in English even if it's simple — AI understands! Or try these smart tricks:
The best entrepreneurs build businesses around things they truly love. AI can help you succeed in ANY area you are passionate about!
Use AI to get story ideas, design descriptions, colour combinations, or write captions for your artwork. Sell digital art!
Use AI to create training plans, understand sports science, write about your favourite sport, or design a sports club!
Use AI to research environmental problems, write campaign posters, or plan a school garden or composting project!
Use AI to create recipes, plan a school bake sale, write food blog posts, or design healthy school menus!
Use AI to get story ideas, improve your writing, create a school magazine or newsletter, or publish a blog!
Use AI to learn coding concepts, build simple apps, understand how technology works, or design your dream tech product!
AI doesn't replace your passion or creativity. It amplifies it. A student who loves drawing + AI skills can create a design business. A student who loves sports + AI skills can build a sports academy. YOU bring the heart. AI brings the horsepower.
Time to roll up your sleeves! Try these experiments with Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool. Compare your results. Learn by doing!
This is the most important experiment. You will clearly see HOW MUCH better your results get when you improve your prompt.
Most people use Round 1 style prompts every day. After doing this experiment, you will NEVER go back. You now understand something most adults don't know!
Real entrepreneurs spend months building business plans. Using AI, you can build a basic one in 15 minutes — then spend months making it real!
A student used this method to plan a "Homework Helper Buddy System" at school where older students help younger ones for a small fee. Within 3 months, it was real!
This experiment teaches you how to take YOUR ideas and let AI make them sound professional — while keeping your voice and creativity!
YOUR ideas are always the most important part. AI is just a better pen. Over time, as you learn from AI's improvements, YOUR own writing will get better too. This is how entrepreneurs use AI responsibly.
Don't just learn about entrepreneurship — DO it! Here are real projects you can start today with the help of AI. They are sorted by grade level.
Design a small garden for your school using AI to research which plants are easy to grow and what they need.
Create a monthly newsletter for your class with news, fun facts, jokes, and stories — with AI as your writing partner!
Research waste problems at your school, design a campaign with AI, and actually run it!
Plan, market, and run a real bake sale using AI to help with recipes, pricing, and marketing.
You can't code yet — but you CAN design an app! Use AI to plan every detail.
Talk about topics you love! AI helps you plan episodes, write scripts, and grow your audience.
Use everything you've learned to start a real small business that actually earns money!
Look beyond your school! Find a problem in your neighbourhood and use AI to build a real plan to help.
Click each skill you've learned or tried! Can you get all of them?
Expertise doesn't happen in one day. But using AI correctly, you can learn 5x faster than before. Here's your journey from beginner to expert!
Start with curiosity. Use AI to explore different topics. Find what excites you. Try different prompts. Don't worry about being perfect — just explore!
Now go deep on ONE topic you chose. Use AI to learn a new thing about it every day. Ask AI to quiz you, give you challenges, and explain things in different ways until you really understand.
Start MAKING things! Use your knowledge to build projects, experiments, or small businesses. AI helps you execute your ideas. Every project teaches you more than any lesson could.
Teach others what you know! Write a blog, make a video, or teach your classmates. Teaching is the best way to become truly expert. Use AI to prepare your lessons and presentations.
You now know more about your topic than most people your age. You've built things. You've shared. Now it's time to solve a REAL problem and create REAL value for others. This is where your entrepreneurship journey truly begins!
At age 15, he developed a new test for detecting pancreatic cancer. He used online research and never gave up after 200 rejections.
Started her climate strike at age 15. One student with a clear message changed how the world talks about climate change.
Started writing stories at age 4. By age 12, she was teaching adults about creativity and had written books and given TED talks.
This is the most important lesson in this entire course. AI is a powerful tool — but tools don't create, people do. Your brain is your greatest superpower. Never outsource it completely.
Understanding this helps you know WHEN to use AI and when to trust your own mind.
Before opening Claude or ChatGPT, spend at least 5 minutes thinking about the problem yourself. Write down your own ideas first — even one sentence counts. AI should respond to YOUR thinking, not replace it.
⏱️ "5 Minutes of YOU First"When given a creative task (a story, a poster idea, a business name), write YOUR ideas on a blank paper first. Only AFTER that, ask AI for more ideas. This trains your creative muscles AND gives you something original to start from.
✍️ Your Draft Comes FirstWhen AI gives you an answer, don't just copy it. Read it carefully. Can you explain it in your own words? If you can't explain something, you don't really know it. Understanding is yours. Information is AI's.
🧐 Always Understand Before UsingSome things you should always do yourself: final decisions on values and ethics, expressing genuine feelings, creative work meant to show YOUR voice, exam or test work, and any time a teacher says "do this yourself"!
🚫 Some Things Are Just For YouAI sometimes makes things up confidently — this is called "hallucination." Never trust AI blindly for important facts, numbers, or names. Verify important information using a book, a trusted website, or your teacher.
🔍 Fact-Check Everything ImportantIf AI writes something for you, always edit it to sound like YOU. Add your own examples, your own experiences, your own feelings. The best entrepreneurs have a unique voice — AI should enhance it, not replace it.
🎤 Your Voice is Your BrandEvery day, do at least one thing WITHOUT AI: solve a problem in your head, write a paragraph from scratch, think of 5 ideas without help, or explain something to a friend in your own words. This keeps your creative muscles strong. The best entrepreneurs are powerful thinkers FIRST — and AI users SECOND.
💪 Exercise Your Brain Every DayThese are the thinking skills you MUST keep exercising yourself. If you always let AI do them, these muscles weaken over time.
These are uniquely human strengths. AI cannot truly replicate any of them — only assist around them.
Work on creative tasks WITHOUT AI first. Write your own ideas. Solve your own problems. Let your mind struggle a little — that's how it grows strong.
Take the ideas you created on Brain Days and use AI to expand, improve, research and refine them. AI now enhances YOUR thinking — not replaces it.
These are the techniques that professionals, researchers, and top entrepreneurs use every day to get extraordinary results from AI tools. Most people have never heard of these!
Claude has a special mode called "Extended Thinking" where it takes extra time to deeply think through a problem before answering — like a student who reads the exam question three times before writing. This produces dramatically more careful and accurate answers for complex problems.
For simple questions ("what is the capital of France?") or quick tasks ("give me 5 ideas"), normal prompting is faster and equally good. Use deep thinking for genuinely complex challenges.
After AI helps you with an idea or plan, ask it to argue AGAINST it. This finds weaknesses you would have missed — before they become real problems.
Don't start a new chat for every question! Keep building on the SAME conversation. AI remembers what you said earlier and gives better, more connected answers as the conversation grows.
Instead of asking AI to explain things, ask it to QUIZ you and ask YOU questions about a topic. This is called the Socratic Method and it's how the best teachers teach. You learn 3× faster this way.
When you are STUCK on a problem, don't just ask AI for the answer. First, explain the problem to AI in as much detail as you can — like you're explaining to a friend who knows nothing. Often, just explaining it clearly helps you suddenly see the answer yourself!
When you add LIMITS to your prompts, AI gives more focused and creative answers. This sounds weird but it really works. "Give me ideas" gets boring answers. "Give me 5 ideas using only things found in a school bag, for less than ₹50" gets amazing ideas!
After AI gives you an answer, ask it: "What is wrong with this answer? What did you miss? What could be better?" AI can spot its own weaknesses when asked directly — and this makes the final result much stronger.
Ask AI to look at your idea from many different expert viewpoints in one go. This is like getting feedback from a whole team of advisors at once — for free!
Break a huge task into small steps. Use ONE prompt for each step, and feed the result of each step into the next prompt. This is how professionals use AI for big, complex projects without getting messy, confused answers.
Ask the SAME question to two different AI tools (e.g., Claude AND ChatGPT). Compare the answers. Where they agree, it is likely correct. Where they disagree, dig deeper. This is a powerful way to check for mistakes and find the best ideas.
Tell AI exactly how you want the output formatted. The same information can look totally different based on how you ask! Formats change how people receive your work.
Before using AI for something, ask yourself this question. The answer should guide you:
Use AI to go faster — but make sure you understand what it produces.
Use AI to learn HOW — then try it yourself next time without AI.
Try it yourself FIRST. Struggle a little. Then use AI only to improve.
Bookmark this! Copy these prompts and use them every day to learn, create, and build.