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A Prompt To Become Dangerously Self-Educated

Create your own self-education plan to become dangerously intelligent (and build the life you've always wanted).

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Craig Perry
Feb 02, 2026
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The purpose of knowledge is not knowledge but action.

So, the purpose of self-education (or any sort of education, be it formal or self-directed/interest-based, then) should be to help you achieve the life you want.

The routine, the habits, how you get to spend your time and what you do with it.

This prompt will help you create the plan for doing exactly that.

It will help you to:

  • Create a vision and anti-vision. This will be the “why” behind your learning goals, and your source of undying motivation

  • Build your first learning project, and help you identify the needle-moving tasks to help you achieve your vision (and steer clear of your anti-vision)

  • Create a plan that gets you educated and building a new life with just 30-90 minutes of deep work and iteration per day

  • Create an AI thinking partner you can return to at any time, to help you overcome immediate problems, reclarify your vision, create endless study projects, and more

Copy and paste the prompt below into any AI chatbot of choice. I’d recommend Claude.

Here it is:


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