Discover what you know. Explore what you could learn.
Connect your abilities. Create something meaningful.
Use these prompts to turn curiosity into action.
SI, or Super Intelligence, is the partnership between
your own intelligence and the assistance of AI.
You bring your experience, curiosity, judgment, and goals.
AI helps you explore ideas, organize information,
and develop possibilities.
You do not need special technical knowledge to begin.
Choose a prompt that interests you, click
Copy Prompt, and paste it into your
preferred AI assistant.
You can answer the AI's questions, ask for simpler
explanations, request examples, or continue the
conversation until you have something useful.
Remember: The goal is not to have AI
think for you. The goal is to help you develop your
own understanding and abilities. Verify important
information and use your own judgment.
Category One
Discover — Recognize What You Already Have
Your journey begins by recognizing the knowledge,
experience, and interests you may have overlooked.
PROMPT 01
Discover My Hidden Abilities
Act as a personal discovery coach. Help me identify abilities I have developed through my jobs, hobbies, family responsibilities, challenges, and life experiences. Ask me one question at a time. After learning about my background, organize my abilities into categories and suggest five ways I might use them in new situations.
PROMPT 02
Find the Polymath in My Life Story
Help me review my life as a journey of learning across different fields. Ask about my education, work, personal interests, accomplishments, and important lessons. Identify connections between experiences that may seem unrelated. Explain what those connections reveal about my potential as an aspiring polymath.
PROMPT 03
Identify My Strongest Interests
Help me discover which subjects genuinely interest me. Ask me about things I enjoy reading, watching, discussing, solving, and learning. Separate passing interests from subjects I might enjoy studying more deeply. Recommend three learning directions and explain why each could be a good fit.
PROMPT 04
Turn My Challenges Into Useful Knowledge
Help me identify useful knowledge I have gained from overcoming difficulties in life. Let me choose which experiences I feel comfortable discussing. Ask thoughtful questions without making assumptions. Suggest ways those lessons might help me solve problems, teach others, or create a useful resource.
PROMPT 05
Discover Five New Possibilities
Based on my current abilities, interests, available time, and resources, help me identify five realistic activities or projects I could explore. Include at least two possibilities outside my previous experience. Explain what I would need to learn, how I could begin, and what each opportunity might contribute to my personal growth.
You do not have to master everything. Begin with
subjects that awaken your curiosity and develop
your understanding step by step.
PROMPT 06
Teach Me Something Completely New
I want to explore a subject I know very little about. Ask me what subject interests me and what I already understand. Create a beginner-friendly introduction using everyday language, practical examples, and short lessons. Check my understanding before moving forward and gradually introduce more advanced ideas.
PROMPT 07
Create My Personal Learning Plan
Help me develop a realistic four-week learning plan for a subject I choose. Ask about my goals, current knowledge, available time, and preferred learning style. Break the subject into manageable steps, suggest free or inexpensive learning resources, and include a small practical activity each week. Explain how I can measure my progress.
PROMPT 08
Explain It Three Different Ways
I am trying to understand a difficult concept. Ask me what the concept is. Explain it first in very simple language, then through an everyday analogy, and finally with a more detailed explanation. Show where the analogy has limitations. Ask me to explain the concept back to you and help correct any misunderstandings.
PROMPT 09
Learn From the Great Polymaths
Introduce me to five historical or modern polymaths from different backgrounds and cultures. Explain the disciplines each explored, how they connected their knowledge, and what made their contributions significant. Distinguish documented facts from popular legends. Suggest three learning habits I can adapt to my own life.
PROMPT 10
Help Me Become an Independent Learner
Teach me how to study a new subject independently. Show me how to ask useful questions, find trustworthy sources, take notes, practice skills, recognize mistakes, and test my understanding. Help me create a repeatable learning method I can use across different disciplines, with or without AI assistance.
Some of the most useful discoveries begin when
ideas from different fields come together.
PROMPT 11
Connect Two of My Interests
Ask me to name two subjects or activities that interest me. Explore at least five meaningful connections between them. Explain how knowledge from one might improve my understanding or ability in the other. Suggest a small project that would allow me to apply both interests together.
PROMPT 12
Look at One Problem From Five Perspectives
Help me examine a problem I choose from five perspectives: scientific, technological, creative, practical, and human. Explain what each perspective reveals, what it may overlook, and how combining the perspectives could produce a better solution. Do not assume that one discipline has all the answers.
PROMPT 13
Find Unexpected Uses for My Skills
Ask me about three abilities I already possess. Identify different fields where those abilities might be useful, including areas I have never considered. Explain which skills transfer directly, which would require additional training, and what small experiments I could try before committing to a new direction.
PROMPT 14
Explore an Idea Across History and Technology
Ask me to choose an invention, idea, or everyday activity. Help me trace how it developed over time, which disciplines contributed to it, and how technology changed its possibilities. Identify lessons from its history that could inspire new approaches today. Point out any historical claims that need verification.
PROMPT 15
Build My Personal Knowledge Map
Help me create a personal knowledge map showing my existing skills, interests, and subjects I want to explore. Organize them into clear categories and describe the connections between them. Identify three promising combinations I could investigate further and explain what additional knowledge would strengthen each connection.
Learning becomes especially meaningful when you
apply what you discover to build, write, design,
improve, or solve something.
PROMPT 16
Turn My Idea Into a Project
Act as a practical project-planning partner. Ask me to describe an idea I would like to develop. Help me define who it is for, what problem it solves, what resources I need, and what skills I already have. Break the idea into manageable steps and identify one action I can take today without spending much money.
PROMPT 17
Invent a Better Way
Help me examine an everyday task or inconvenience that I believe could be improved. Ask questions about how it currently works, who experiences the problem, and what limitations exist. Generate several possible improvements using ideas from different disciplines. Compare their practicality, cost, and likely usefulness, then help me choose one to test.
PROMPT 18
Create Something From My Life Experience
Help me transform knowledge gained from my life or work into something useful for others. Ask what I know well and who might benefit. Suggest possibilities such as a short guide, instructional video, workshop, checklist, website, or community resource. Help me select a format that fits my abilities and available time.
PROMPT 19
Build a Project With Three Disciplines
Challenge me to create a small project that combines at least three disciplines. First ask about my interests, existing abilities, and available resources. Suggest three project ideas, explain how each discipline contributes, and help me choose one. Create a simple prototype plan and a way to test whether the result is useful.
PROMPT 20
Improve Something I Already Created
Help me evaluate a project, product, piece of writing, lesson, or resource I have already created. Ask me about its purpose and intended audience. Review its strengths, weaknesses, accessibility, and practical usefulness. Suggest improvements drawn from at least three different fields, and help me prioritize changes that offer the greatest benefit.
Knowledge becomes more valuable when it can
improve someone's life, preserve experience,
or make a positive difference in a community.
PROMPT 21
Discover Who Could Benefit From My Knowledge
Help me identify people who might benefit from my experience and abilities. Ask about subjects I understand, problems I have solved, and lessons I could share. Suggest five specific audiences or groups I might help, along with practical ways to reach them. Focus on realistic contributions rather than promises of income or recognition.
PROMPT 22
Bridge the Generation Gap
Help me design a small project in which older and younger generations can learn from one another. Identify useful contributions from life experience, technical knowledge, creativity, and practical skills. Suggest activities that encourage mutual respect, shared decision-making, and a result that benefits both generations.
PROMPT 23
Preserve Knowledge Worth Sharing
Help me create a plan to preserve useful knowledge, stories, skills, or lessons from my life or community. Ask what I want to preserve and who should benefit. Recommend suitable formats such as interviews, written guides, recordings, photographs, or demonstrations. Include practical considerations for permission, privacy, accuracy, and long-term accessibility.
PROMPT 24
Solve a Problem in My Community
Help me identify a practical problem in my neighborhood or community that I might be able to help address. Ask about my interests, resources, and local concerns. Suggest small, achievable projects that combine different skills. Explain who should be consulted, what permissions may be needed, and how to evaluate whether the project actually helps.
PROMPT 25
Design My Personal Polymath Mission
Act as my personal polymath development partner. Help me bring together my abilities, interests, values, and desire to contribute. Ask me one question at a time until you understand what matters most to me. Then help me write a short personal mission statement, identify three areas I want to develop, choose one meaningful project, and create a realistic plan for my next thirty days. End by asking: What are you willing to learn next?