How to Be a Genius at Life
When you’re an ambitious, hardworking, imaginative person, everyday life can pose a challenge. We’ll explore relationships, identity, time management, communication, and many more topics and life skills that help create balance. Learn to manage conflict and listen while being persuasive from geniuses such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In a life filled with deadlines and pressure learn techniques for happiness including gratitude, savoring, managing criticism, and compartmentalization from Claude Debussy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Explore the relationships between imagination and mental health. Learn to be brilliant both in your work and in your life.

Bringing Your Brilliance to Market
So you have a brilliant idea or you’ve built an amazing thing. Now it’s time to let people know about it. Learn how people recognize authority, hear about ideas, and connect with you and your creations from geniuses such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Learn the value of authorship and producing content. Hear the ins and outs of public speaking or performance. Many ideas require starting a business, so we’ll cover tips on meeting potential customers and crossing the chasm between your loyal early adopters and the mainstream buyer from Thomas Edison. Understand how your ideas can resonate with your local area and nationwide.

Origins of Original Thought
Unravelling the stereotypically mysterious topic of imagination, this talk lays out a practical path that the development of ideas must take using anecdotes from geniuses such as Arthur Rimbaud, Glenn Gould, and Galileo Galilei. We’ll begin with basic understanding and to developing skills upon which imagination foments personal theories that lead to original thought. The aspects of imagination we’ll explore include visualization, hybridization, and leveraging psychological conditions. Explore and comprehend your own inner workings to amplify and enhance your own creative powers.

Anatomy of a Prompt
Everyone talks about writing better prompts, but few people explain what a prompt is actually made of. In this practical session, author Dan Hermes breaks down the anatomy of an effective prompt into its essential building blocks. Learn how to give AI the right context, assign the right role, specify the right format, provide useful examples, and set clear constraints that dramatically improve the quality of every response. Whether you’re using ChatGPT for business, writing, education, or everyday productivity, you’ll leave with a simple framework you can apply immediately and discover why a few extra lines of instruction can transform AI from an unpredictable chatbot into a reliable collaborator.