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Transcript: Real Intelligence — 3 Rules and 3 Habits to Become "Disgustingly Articulate"

Shared by Ravi on 2026-11-05 for vak-sadhana. YouTube video transcript (auto-generated, lightly cleaned; the end of the video was cut off). Speaker: a creator whose channel/school is mentioned as "Cutting It School".

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The fastest way to ruin your career is to use artificial intelligence without using your real intelligence. And I know it sounds very weird coming from me. That's why we have decided to talk a lot more about real intelligence on our channel. I genuinely feel that in the next just 2-3 years we will have tons of new graduates, tons of professionals who will know how to make a PPT with AI. But very few who know how to present it in front of the people. Very few who will know what to put in that presentation in the first place. We will have tons of people who can do vibe coding. But very few people with enough critical thinking to decide why are we vibe coding? How do we program this? Why are we building something like this? And honestly, after 2-3 years of, you know, just talking about AI, I've honestly become very bored of just talking about AI because now everybody has become an AI creator. It's become like a fun thing to do. So, in today's video, I wanted to do something different. I will be covering just one topic. One topic out of a list of 100 that I wish to explore now. This is not basics of AI. This is going to be the basics of RI. Real intelligence.

Have you seen this video ever on YouTube?

"I've been looking forward to for 2 and 1/2 years." [applause]

I'm sure a lot of you might have seen it. If you're very very young, to ho sakta na dekhiyo. This is by the way the first iPhone launch. And I'm not sure if you know, but Apple is Apple, I think even at that point and even today, they were known for these sessions because of Steve's charisma. Can you tell me how Steve Jobs could always grab everyone's attention on stage so easily. Same with Shah Rukh Khan as well. Why do these people always sound so smart? Is it their words? Is it the way they speak? Well, because all of these people were disgustingly articulate. They know what to say and they always knew how to say it. And after giving a hundred plus lectures to people across 55 countries, here are three rules and three habits that will help you become disgustingly articulate. Most of you would not know even half of them because unfortunately, colleges and institutions don't focus on this.

So, rule number one. Words are not thoughts. This is something that I've learned from Javed Akhtar sir. The world has in general become very smart, you know, and audiences and people in general, they can recognize BS faster than ever. So, you really, really need to practice thinking. Thinking about something clearly and thinking about something again and again from different point of views and then compress an idea into a simple statement that uses simple words. So, you need to be clear and not clever. So, how do you apply this rule? Habit number one is that from today onwards, you need to promise me that you will start thinking in structures and not sentences. What do I mean by that? Before you speak something, before you write something, spend enough time building a mental model or a structure to your core ideas. Almost like a tree of ideas. Think in bullet points. As if you are paying for every extra word.

Rule number two, how you say something is as important as what you're saying. So, for this, the habit is that you need to practice your tone and your pitch. If I were to say the same sentence in a different way, practice your tone and pitch, you would obviously not be interested. My voice, my accent, everything plays a role, and to fix your tonality, keep a pencil in your mouth and read aloud books for at least 45 minutes every day for the next 100 days of your life.

Rule number three, information is not equal to knowledge. And again, knowledge is not equal to experience. People think that if they have read something, they have understood it. But in the age of AI slop, reading does not mean understanding. Just because you know a fact does not mean that you understand it end to end. And good news, if you don't understand it, you won't be able to make others understand it as well. So, how do you improve this? For this, you have habit number three. When you're reading about something, when you're understanding something, practice explaining that one idea, that one concept in different ways. When I was in school, I used to read the same physics theorem from NCERT, HC Verma and Pradeep. It significantly changed my life because if you can explain something through different analogies, it means for sure that your brain is able to switch its point of view again and again and clearly see the core idea.

So, let's recap the three rules of being extremely articulate because you need to follow this for the next 100 days. Rule number one, words are not thoughts, so you need to think in structures and not sentences because sentences are all about words. You need to have a mental model. Rule number two is how you say something matters a lot. So, practice your tone, your pitch, your accent with the pencil drill. I'll put the pictures. 45 minutes a day. That's all. Rule number three, information is not the same as knowledge. So, to test yourself, practice explaining one idea in multiple ways until your brain can flip perspective on demand.

Now, what is your homework? Because if you don't do your homework, you're not going to follow this. Pick one idea that you have learned this week. It could be about your business, work, health, could be anything. You know, you might be reading a book, you might have seen a movie or podcast, meeting, anything. Set a 30-minute timer and take a piece of pen and paper, not typing, a pen and paper. And explain that concept in three different ways. And then read aloud the explanation with a pencil in your mouth. You have to do this for the next 100 days. And trust me when I say this, you will upgrade yourself forever.

I have a bunch of interesting topics in my mind for the next few videos. I'm going away from the entire traditional editing model in general because we realize that at the Cutting It School, we stand for certain values and one of our values is to speak about meaningful things and to cut away all of the fluff and the buffer. So, if you feel that this format works for you, let me know in the [transcript ends]