My name is Olga. I'm the author of this course. Let me tell you why it is the way it is.
For twenty-three years, adults have been coming to my drawing studio.
Every other one says, on the first lesson, almost the same thing: "Please don't laugh, I have no talent." And a little later: "Is it really true that if I do at home what we draw in the studio, I can learn to draw as well as those exhibition pieces by your students?"
You can. I know, because I have seen it hundreds of times.
I used to think my students really had no time for homework — they're adults, with jobs, families, commutes, exhaustion. Then a film crew came to record the studio, and I was sure no one would show up — middle of the workweek, midday. They came. Many of them. They simply asked for time off, rescheduled meetings, found two hours out of nowhere. That's when I understood: it isn't about time. It's about what you're finding time for.
This is, perhaps, the main thing I learned in twenty-three years: adults don't learn when they're bored or when they don't see why. When they see why — they find everything they thought they didn't have.
When AI appeared, I watched how people were being taught to use it — and saw the same mistake I once saw in my own studio. Courses gave ready-made prompt templates. Described their structure. Explained how to fill them in. And the students of those courses wrote me the same thing in the comments, without realizing it: "I don't know my target audience," "I don't understand what I want from AI."
They were given the formula — but no one taught them the step that comes before the formula. The step where everyone trips. I knew that step. I had been teaching it to people for twenty-three years — only in the studio it was called "deciding what you want to draw," and here it's called "deciding what you want from AI." It's the same step.
That's how Genie in Your Pocket+ came to be.
The first beta testers went through the course and wanted everything at once — to rebuild their thinking in one or two lessons. And they got tired, because thinking doesn't rebuild quickly, no matter how interesting and easy the material. I reassured them, the way I once reassured students in the studio: speed isn't the point. The point is that, later, you will see how your own writing has changed — vague before, precise now. And the AI's answers, which used to seem useless, now work. They saw it.
If you've never heard of me — that's normal. Most of my readers had never heard of me either, until one day they picked up a book in a store and decided to trust it. I now live in Georgia and I'm doing this work in English for the first time. If you want to figure this out — you already have everything you need. You'll find the time.
— Olga
