#51 Pausing While Speaking, Paying Less for Flights, and Producing VIDEO with ChatGPT

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Whether you want to improve yourself, your relationships, your work environment, et cetera, don’t give up. Don’t let a setback become resignation. Keep pushing forward.

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Here’s What We’re All-In On This Week:

🤔 Why You Should Pause More When You Speak

💰️ Making the Most Cents When Buying a Flight

🗞️ Great ChatGPT Content

➕ Much. More.

Expert Advice 🤝 

Who is Tim Ferriss?

• He’s the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers and is one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” 
  

• He’s an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and more).

• Wait…he also writes a newsletter with 1.5M+ subscribers called the Five Bullet Friday, where he shares the five coolest things he found or explored each week.

Who is Ryan Holiday?

• He is the NYT-Bestselling author of The Obstacle Is The Way, which offers individuals a framework to flip obstacles into opportunities.
  

• With a casual 650k+ following on X / Twitter, the dude’s philosophy is on another level.

Making Cents 💰️ 

Which Day is the Best Day To Buy a Flight?

Short and Sweet: Rumor has it flights are best purchased on Tuesdays. This is not true.

The true best thing about Tuesdays is OTF, but we digress…

The actual best day to buy a flight, according to Nerdwallet and Forbes Advisor, is…wait for it…whatever day the deal pops up, which happens most often mid-week (not just Tuesdays).

Why It Matters: Because flights aren’t cheap. Tips and tricks on when to buy are important.

💡 Basics:

• The Cheapest Days to Fly are Mid-Week.

• The Most Expensive Days to Fly are Weekends.

 📈 Data:

Plan your flights as far in advance as possible, and always aim to takeoff mid-week. If you do this, you will save money and you’ll give yourself the best chance to avoid the fate of our guy here ⬇️

Hustle Hub 📈 

• YOUR SUCCESS: Learn the benefit of pausing when speaking from a communication expert who has 3.1M followers on Instagram. Video Content!

• THEIR SUCCESS: You know Calendly, the scheduling automation platform that eliminates back-and-forth emails to find the perfect meeting time; now learn about it’s $3B success story from it’s Nigerian founder.

• YOUR SUCCESS: Whether you’re an entrepreneur, side-hustler, or you simply want to dominate your current career path, here are goals (resolutions?) you should make to set yourself up for success.

• THEIR SUCCESS: Check out how saving $25 a month helped this single mom launch a business that brings in almost $500k a year. (If you needed more motivation for a “Spend-Less January” challenge, here it is!)

Working With AI 🦾 

🤯 How To Create Video with ChatGPT

Making any image you can describe come to life using Midjourney remains baffling to those just getting acquainted with the world of AI.

If that’s you, then the ability to create video from scratch through ChatGPT will Blow. Your. Mind.

Yet another tutorial from our favorite AI newsletter, Superhuman.

• Go to the ChatGPT website and log in.

• Go to the explore tab and search for VideoGPT by VEED or head over to VEED.IO/videogpt 

• Click on Let’s Create a Video!

• Enter the video description that you want to generate - be detailed!

• You will get a link to your video and when you click on the link, it will open as an editable video project from VEED.

• You can edit the video to match your needs and export it easily.

For the example above, they used the following prompt:

A horse running in a field on a happy, sunny day

At the current rate of AI development, we will have everything we could ever need to create the best content (super) humanly possible.

In case you missed any of our more recent “Working With AI” curations, here are a couple to get your feet wet:

• An epic ChatGPT Prompting Sheet to help you on how to prompt.

• How to do on-brand product photography with Midjourney, the AI-image generation product.

• How to create Auto Captions using Submagic.

If you click on one of the links above, scroll right to the Working With AI section for more on each curation.

Conversation Starters 😉 

• SELF-INTEREST: Talk about whether or not you’re a natural leader.

• HUMAN INTEREST: Talk about this former CIA analyst’s take on how “emotional intelligence helps effective communication.”

• ARTIFICIAL INTEREST: Did you enjoy our “Working With AI” section? Do you want to take the conversation further? If so, talk about how ChatGPT can maximize both productivity and creativity.

Major Moves:

✖️ X

Slowly but surely becoming an app for everything?

Elon has wanted X, formerly known as Twitter, to become an “everything app” since the first day of his takeover. Now, we’re finally seeing a step in that direction: X “announced it will launch peer-to-peer payments this year.”

So, Twitter meets Venmo meets…

Stay tuned!

 👀 NBC:

Is “The Office” Coming Back?

Well, not exactly. Don’t expect to see Jim or Pam or Michael Scott back at Dunder Mifflin any time soon, but if the rumors are true, you can expect to see a spinoff somewhere down the line: “Creator Greg Daniels is now setting up a development room with writers to explore ideas for a new Office series…the show will reportedly be set in a new office and follow a new cast of characters, but it will be set in the same world as the 2005 series.”

We’re no profit-forecasting experts, but this seems too big to fail, right? Spinoffs of popular originals never fail, right?

🪦 artifact:

The personalized news app is shutting down by March.

Artifact, the news app created by Instagram’s co-founders, is shutting down at the end of February. They decided that “the market opportunity isn’t enough to warrant continued investment.”

This is a shame; Artifact was a good app with a lot of potential for anyone looking to avoid the potential pitfalls of getting news from X. That said, the article does offer two alternatives if you’re in the market for a new news app.

Food For Thought 💭 

You are now On The Fly and In The Know.