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Hey rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Pooja films a weekly YouTube video of her kids learning a creative skill.
It started when she wanted her own kids off screens.
So she filmed them making things — and shared it.
Her pitch is simple: creativity isn't a born talent.
It grows from small daily projects, one Saturday at a time.
And her viewers? They want the same — real, screen-free time with their kids.
⛳️ Problem:
Pooja loves three things: design, art, and photography.
And she feels guilty about all three at once.
Every coach tells her the same thing — pick one lane.
So she tries a teaching-only channel, then a photo-only one. Then quits both.
Six months in? No audience, and three half-built channel pages. Ouch.
Her problem: how to combine three skills into one channel worth following.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Talent stacking
Picture a kid with three okay LEGO sets — a car, a boat, a plane.
None is special on its own.
But snap them together and you get a flying boat-car nobody else owns.
That's the idea behind talent stacking.
Scott Adams is the cartoonist behind Dilbert.
At its peak, Dilbert ran in 2,000 newspapers across 65 countries.
His take: most people fail at "pick one thing."
They're never the best writer or the best artist.
But a rare mix of three ordinary skills? It beats one elite skill.
That stack becomes a category of one — and nobody can copy it.
And get this — Adams lived it himself.
He was never the best artist.
His drawing was simple.
He was never the best writer.
His writing was plain.
But he stacked skills almost nobody combines.
He could draw, write, be funny, and understand office life.
That last one came from years stuck in a cubicle.
It's why Dilbert nailed the clueless bosses and pointless meetings.
That rare combo — not one big talent — built Dilbert.
🚗 The steps
📝 Step 1 — List every skill you've already built.
Think of cleaning out a junk drawer.
You dump it all out — tape, batteries, that weird key.
Half looks useless until you actually need it.
Do that with your skills.
Write down everything, even the odd ones.
Pooja dumps out three.
Six years as a UX designer, making apps easy for anyone to use.
Years teaching after-school art to kids.
Weekends shooting family photo sessions.
🔍 Step 2 — Find the intersection only you can fill.
Think of three circles in a Venn diagram.
Each one is a skill.
They barely touch at first.
But there's a tiny sliver where all three overlap.
That sliver is one audience your whole stack can serve.
Pooja finds hers by asking who needs all three at once.
Parents who want creative time with their kids are stuck.
They need lesson plans, kid-friendly prompts, and footage that inspires them.
Turns out, Pooja can do all three.
Design the lesson, teach the art, shoot it beautifully.
🎯 Step 3 — Ship one piece that uses all three.
Think of a Sunday roast.
The cook doesn't serve the meat, the gravy, and the veg on separate plates.
It's all one dish — and that's what makes it a meal.
Ship one weekly thing that puts your whole stack on one plate.
Pooja launches a YouTube channel called Saturday Studio Kids.
Each video carries one art lesson, taught to her two kids.
One creative prompt the kids try on camera.
Footage she shoots with care, so the light and details look beautiful.
Her first video gets sixty views.
Three parents comment asking for the lesson plan.
Three skills, aimed in one direction.
A combo no single-skill rival can match.
The prompt below will find the rare intersection in your stack using all three steps.
You just tell it the messy list of everything you're kinda good at.
🧸 Three ordinary skills + one shared viewer = a category of one.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt or just run as is, your AI sidekick will use the example values and will give output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a clear, warm, no-jargon voice — first-person, plain words, no startup-speak.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
Inputs:
My skill list (everything I'm decent at — paid skills, unpaid hobbies, weird obsessions, jobs I've had, things friends ask me for help with):
{e.g. UX design, after-school art teaching, weekend family photography, kid-friendly creative prompts, organizing kids' birthday games}
My lived experience clues (3-5 short phrases about what you've actually done, taught, or fixed for someone):
{e.g. six years designing apps, taught 200+ kids in art class, shot 30+ family sessions, mom of two kids aged 6 and 9}
For Audience: {e.g. parents who want creative time with their kids that feels real, not another expensive after-school class}
For Outcome: {e.g. a one-page stack pitch I can paste on my channel About page that explains why my weird combo is the right fit for this audience}
Outputs:
1. My top 3 stackable skills — the three from my list that overlap on one audience.
2. The intersection — one sentence naming the audience and the exact problem only my stack can solve.
3. My weekly artifact — one specific thing I can ship every week that uses all three skills together (e.g. a YouTube video, a newsletter issue, a workshop).
4. My stack pitch — a 3-4 sentence About-page paragraph that names the three skills and the audience without sounding like a resume.
5. The skill I should DROP from my pitch — the one I keep wanting to add because it sounds impressive, even though it doesn't serve this audience.
Then write the first issue of the weekly artifact using all three skills.
One stack only you could ever build.
One audience that needs all three skills at once.
One weekly artifact that quietly proves it.
That's it, my fellow mavericks!
Yours 'helping you turn your obsession into income 10x faster with your AI sidekick' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️