WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.960 Welcome to the Becoming You Show, where limits get torched 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:09.560 and possibility takes the micing. I'm Leah Rowing, human in 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:15.320 permanent beta, neurostrategist, mom to three amazing humans, married to 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.800 one legendary soul, and your no Fluff Permission slate to 5 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:25.719 stop waiting. Every week, we rewire brain patterns, smash hand 6 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.920 me down mindsets, and dive into the daring, identity shifting 7 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.479 conversations most people gosh ready to turn potential into proof. 8 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:43.600 Grab your pen. Your next chapter starts now. Hello, my friends, 9 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:50.560 Welcome Friday. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Leah Rolling, 10 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:55.840 and I'm excited about this conversation that we're going to 11 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.560 just dive right into. So I want to describe the 12 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:04.879 world that we are actually living in right now, because 13 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.040 I'm not sure many of us are talking about it 14 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:16.480 out loud. Right. There's posts about it, there's like one 15 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:20.480 on one conversations about it. But I want to I 16 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.319 want to bring this conversation into the world because I 17 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:27.000 think it's deserved. Right. So you woke up one day, 18 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:31.200 We woke up one day and the rules changed, right 19 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.239 for so many of us, that is right, the very 20 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:40.319 thing that you spent years getting good at the skill 21 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.879 that set you apart, the thing that made you valuable. 22 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:51.560 Somebody can now do a passable we'll just call it 23 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.439 version of it in about ten seconds maybe more, with 24 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:59.920 a tool that they learned this morning. Right. The expert 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.959 tease that you traded a decade of your life, of 26 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:13.759 your schooling to build is being handled handled right for 27 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:18.039 and buy a price of a subscription. And it is 28 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:27.520 happening in almost every field at the same time, writing, design, marketing, research, strategy, finance, 29 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.599 like you name it. The work that used to take 30 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:38.280 a specialist is turning into something that anyone with a 31 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.840 tool can do, like anyone with Chat or Claude or 32 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.439 any sort of agentic augmented version of any of these 33 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:53.879 AI subscriptions. And it's stirring up something in a lot 34 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.080 of us. There's this like low hum if you will, 35 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:05.280 of anxiety and some quiet questions that come about with 36 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:08.240 regards to how do I even fit in? Is the 37 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.599 work that I that I do even relevant? And I 38 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.599 want you to hear me say that that is an 39 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.960 accurate read. That is an accurate read of a real shift. 40 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.280 But here is why I wanted to make this episode 41 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.159 because I want you to stay with me on this. 42 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.199 This is the part that nobody is saying, okay, And 43 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.159 my hope is that this is a very clarifying and 44 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:41.759 hopeful moment for you in this conversation, because what I 45 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.840 have found is when an old advantage disappears, it doesn't 46 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.039 have to leave a whole, it doesn't have to leave 47 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.400 a mark, it doesn't have to leave a scar. If 48 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.199 you allow it, it can point you, It can redirect you, 49 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.080 right with really, with a lot of clarity, toward a 50 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:05.319 new one. Right And I don't think a lot of 51 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.280 us are looking in the right place. So today I'm 52 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.599 gonna direct us to where I have been invited to look, 53 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.000 and I'm inviting you to look there with me. So 54 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.959 for most of human history, well let's take this to 55 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.000 the basics. Right, For most of human history, your advantage 56 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.279 was simple. Okay, you knew how to do something other 57 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.720 people could not. Okay, Skill was scarce, knowledge was rare, 58 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.800 Expertise was a gift. Okay. So you went, you learned 59 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.800 the thing, you practiced the thing, You got good at 60 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:51.079 the thing, and being good at the thing set you 61 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.879 apart from everyone who had not done the work, gathered 62 00:04:54.920 --> 00:05:01.680 the expertise acquired the competence, and that level of genius 63 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:08.639 was sought after competence then was was the currency, and 64 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:14.519 that world is closing and it didn't it's not closing slow. 65 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:19.800 It's really fast, right, alarmingly fast. And so what do 66 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:21.839 you do? What do you do when the tools are 67 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:26.519 equal and everybody holds them, skills stop being the very 68 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:32.720 thing that separates you. Okay, I'm not saying I want 69 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:37.600 to make clear of this because it's misinterpreted. I'm not 70 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:41.839 saying that the skill stopped mattering. I'm saying that the 71 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.959 skill stopped being scarce, and the scarcity of it was 72 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.720 the only real reason it was an advantage. Right, the 73 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.680 second everyone can reach for the same capability, the capability 74 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.279 then stops being your edge and then becomes this floor. 75 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.920 So it moves from the thing that sets you apart 76 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.439 to just the the price to play, the price, the 77 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.519 price to the price of admission. So there really is 78 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.680 only one question that matters in this new world. And 79 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.199 I want I want it ringing in your ears, I 80 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.040 want you taking it for walks, I want you, I 81 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.800 want you wandering around about it. Right, if this skill, 82 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.720 if the expertise, the competence and knowing how to do 83 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:28.360 the thing right is now the floor? What's the advantage 84 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:32.639 if everyone can do the thing? What makes you the 85 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.000 one they cannot replace? I want you to hold that 86 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.519 for a minute, because we're we're gonna get to the answer, 87 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:42.199 and I don't think the answer is where you would expect. 88 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.480 So this is what the research actually says. Because I 89 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.759 don't want you just I never want you just taking 90 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.120 my word for it. Okay. I want you to see 91 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:56.079 that the people studying this the most closely are circling 92 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:01.439 the same conclusion, right, even when most of them stop 93 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.079 just short of the real point. We're going to get 94 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.399 to the real point today, Okay. So across the board, 95 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:12.240 the people studying AI and work like you know, are 96 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.079 saying a version of the same thing. Right as the 97 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:22.800 technology gets commoditized. Okay, human skills are what is the differentiator? 98 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.639 You've heard this from me. This is not the first 99 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:31.399 time you're hearing this, okay, And I think one major 100 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:35.959 analysis put it almost exactly that way, telling leaders not 101 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:39.199 to underestimate the power of human skills to set them 102 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.519 apart in a world where the technology itself is available 103 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:46.879 to everyone. Okay, and when they get specific about which 104 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:52.079 human skills actually hold up. The list is remarkably consistent 105 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:57.160 across the board, across the research, across industry. Okay, the 106 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:03.079 durable skills, the protected skill, the capabilities that a I 107 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.800 can assist around the edges but cannot replace. Okay, and 108 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:10.800 they're they're they're deeply human ones. Okay, I'm guessing you 109 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:20.480 can guess what they are. Right, Empathy, real listening, self awareness, motivation, discipline, curiosity, resilience, 110 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.680 the ability to adapt and bend without breaking leadership of course, right, 111 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.560 the capacity to move and align other people. And the 112 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:39.480 research keeps saying, right, these depend these, these capabilities depend 113 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:44.440 on human relationships and on lived experiences, on that level 114 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.559 of emotional intelligence and attunement, and those and those are 115 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:55.120 exactly the things that a machine cannot reach. Okay, The 116 00:08:55.159 --> 00:09:01.519 most current employment data is not showing some mass replacement 117 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.480 event in some industries. Yes, but if we were to 118 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.320 look at all of them, like all of the industries, 119 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.120 there's not this mass exodus of people being replaced and 120 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:20.320 let go. Okay, The real bottleneck is not too few jobs. 121 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.799 The bottleneck is finding people who can actually work well 122 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.519 with these tools and bring judgment to them. Right. And 123 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.320 the word that keeps coming up, coming up in the research, 124 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:39.879 coming up in in AI conversations is augmentation, not automation. Right. 125 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:46.559 The future of productivity is not is not the machine, okay, 126 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.879 instead of the human. It is the machine and the 127 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:55.039 human together with the human bringing the thing the machine 128 00:09:55.159 --> 00:10:03.919 never can okay. And there there is even the striking 129 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:07.679 finding in the productivity numbers. Okay. This is also very interesting, 130 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:15.960 you guys. So individuals report saving real time with these tools, right, individually, 131 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.320 collectively as organizations, this was also very interesting in the research. 132 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.519 Collectively as an organization, they're not seeing the durable gains. 133 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:29.960 They're not seeing the levels of efficiency the scale that 134 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:37.200 one might expect. There's not a correlation between the individual 135 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:42.639 gain and the organizational gain, okay. And I think the 136 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:49.519 reason is fascinating. Okay. It's that companies obsess over the 137 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:53.639 tool and ignore the whole system, okay, which is the 138 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:57.840 humans and the technology working together. We have to understand 139 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.879 that the tool was never going to be enough on 140 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.879 its own. And I'm not suggesting this globally. And I 141 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.840 get that there's our outliers, okay. I understand that. I 142 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:14.840 understand that there are many instances where AI is it 143 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.120 replaces all of it, But most of the time, the 144 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.639 augmentation of what AI is bringing into the world is 145 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.519 the conversation. Okay, it was never, like I said, the 146 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.960 tool itself was never going to be on its own. 147 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:33.399 It still needs a and this is the keyword developed 148 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.320 human on the other end of it. Okay. So if 149 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.240 you put all of that together, and the experts are 150 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:43.559 telling you something that's genuinely good, okay, and the thing 151 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:49.480 that's genuinely good is that the advantage is human, right, 152 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:56.080 the value, the durable value is human. The thing that 153 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:02.480 cannot be commoditized is human, right, good to know. And then, 154 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.559 like so many other things, it just stops, like all 155 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:10.559 the research stops right there. Right. I might offer one 156 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:15.480 layer too high, and that one layer in that in 157 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.159 that one layer, they skip the whole point of what 158 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.720 this episode is going to be. So I want you 159 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:25.720 to look again, and let's revisit again. The durable human skills, 160 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.440 the one that I offered up earlier, early on, the 161 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.840 ones that that probably were at one point in time, 162 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:38.840 called the soft skills of leadership, okay, empathy, self awareness, resilience, motivation, discipline, leadership. 163 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.440 Everyone is now telling you to go double down on those. 164 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.759 Build your human skills, build your soft skills, build your 165 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.679 emotional intelligence. And that is not wrong. I'm not here 166 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.960 to say that it's wrong, But I want you to 167 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.879 notice something that almost no one is naming. Every single 168 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:02.799 one of those is an output. Every one of them 169 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:12.799 is comes from. Is the outcome of something deeper. No 170 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.240 one's talking about what's upstream from that. No one's talking 171 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.759 about the root. So this is what I mean. Let's 172 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:28.559 talk about empathy. You cannot, as we humans, cannot offer 173 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:36.159 steady empathy to another human, to a situation, to a circumstance, 174 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.320 to an event. We can't bring in empathy to a 175 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:45.159 team meeting from an ungoverned inner world. Right. So the 176 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:55.000 second that you are dysregulated, reactive, defended, annoyed, right, your 177 00:13:55.039 --> 00:14:01.120 empathy collapses into self protection, self preservation, right, and then 178 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.480 you can't feel anyone about yourself. So empathy is not 179 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:10.840 really the skill. Do you see that? It's not? Self 180 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:15.200 governance is the skill, right, And empathy is what it produces. 181 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:19.720 Self awareness, Let's talk about that is a skill. You 182 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.360 cannot be aware of yourself if you are avoiding yourself right. 183 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:27.360 Real self awareness takes a willingness to look at the 184 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.840 things that you would rather not look at. Okay, that 185 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:38.759 is inner capacity. That is what is in question. Resilience. 186 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.559 You see how all of the skills that were being 187 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:50.159 asked to develop or downstream from something much deeper resilience. 188 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.440 That's another a soft skill that organizations are now just 189 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.000 thinking that might be a really plause of thing to 190 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:06.360 train on. We treat resilience as if it's a personality 191 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.320 trait that a few people are lucky enough to have. 192 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:17.639 Yet she's really resilient. It's not. Resilience is just what 193 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.960 our ability to be self governed looks like. Under load. 194 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.440 It's what happens when you have built the ability to 195 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:27.840 hold yourself steady when the pressure it's on is on. 196 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.279 And leadership the one that I talk about the most 197 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.240 all the time. You cannot lead other people from a 198 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.480 self that you have not learned how to lead. So 199 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.080 leadership of others is always downstream of leadership of self, 200 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.720 every single time. And so this is where the analysts 201 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.799 and the researchers and in all the conversations on Reddit 202 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:55.679 around AI, they this is they keep walking right up 203 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:59.120 to this point, and then they miss the durable human 204 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:04.679 skills everyone is racing toward. Are all sitting on top 205 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:09.919 of one foundation that no one is naming, and that 206 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.840 is your relationship with yourself and your ability to govern 207 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:20.879 your inner world right. So, in a world where AI 208 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:27.519 commoditizes skill, where everyone holds the same tools, where competence 209 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:32.039 becomes the floor, I want you to see that your 210 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.559 disadvantage did not move, did not disappear. Rather, it did 211 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.720 not go away, It did not get replaced. It moved. 212 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:47.919 It moved. It moved from outside of you to you, 213 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:57.600 right to you. You are the advantage. You are the advantage. 214 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:03.200 That's the whole podcast. It moved to the exact place 215 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:08.559 that no machine can reach, no person can copy. It 216 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.599 moved to who you are when the tools are all equal. 217 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.559 It's no longer what you can do or not do. 218 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.920 Everyone can do. Now. It moved to who are you? 219 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:29.559 Who are you? The steadiness that you carry into a room, 220 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.599 the clarity that you hold when everyone else is spinning, 221 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:37.920 The way that you feel calmer and more capable by 222 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:43.640 just being near you, Your judgment, your presence, your heart, 223 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.880 your capacity to govern yourself right, so that you can 224 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:54.680 actually offer the empathy, the resilience, the discipline, the leadership, 225 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.480 the ownership, the accountability, that this new world is suddenly 226 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.720 willing to now all of a sudden, pay a premium 227 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:07.799 for right that you is the one thing that cannot 228 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:12.680 be downloaded. It cannot be prompted. It cannot be automated 229 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:18.279 or copied or outsourced or subscribed to or handed out 230 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:24.440 with the login like you are the last truly scarce 231 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:31.119 thing there is? Have you ever thought about it like that? What? 232 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:33.480 You are? 233 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:41.039 The last truly scarce thing there is? And if you're 234 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:46.000 if you're still with me on this, this is where 235 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:50.440 I'm gonna push back a bit, okay, because if that 236 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:56.160 is true, and I'm I'm suggesting that it is, okay, 237 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.759 why aren't we building it? Why aren't we build it? Meaning? 238 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:05.759 Why are where are your resources going? Are your resources 239 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.799 going still out? Are they going in? Are you? Are 240 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:13.799 you investing in resourcing yourself? Are you? Are you thinking 241 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:23.720 about deliberately and intentionally investing in the build of you? Right? 242 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.920 Think about what everybody is doing right now? They are 243 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.720 most are in a frantic race to learn the new tools, right, 244 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:40.160 which tool, which prompt of which platform? Which workflow? Like 245 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.359 which version of claude, Which version of Chat? Should I upgrade? 246 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:45.960 Should I not upgrade? Should I like? Should I do 247 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.519 the pro version? Like? What are the inputs? Like? What 248 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:50.839 do I need to mimic in order to get the 249 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:54.440 output that I want? The race matters. I'm not saying 250 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:58.400 it's not so hear me. Okay, run it for sure, 251 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:03.000 but understand what it is. It is a race on 252 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.880 the commoditized layer. It is the race that everyone is 253 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:13.640 racing to. Everyone is learning the same tools. Right by definition, 254 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.759 that cannot be where your advantage lives because everyone is 255 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.799 going to get there. Yes, people could argue that whoever 256 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:25.400 gets there the fastest wins. It depends on the race. 257 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.039 It depends. It depends on the race that you're running. 258 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.880 If we're running two hundred sprints, yes, if you get 259 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:37.880 there first, you win. But the bigger race is life itself. 260 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.160 The bigger race is the is, the marathon, is the ultrathon. 261 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:49.480 So I'm asking you, because I know you're capable of it, 262 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:54.319 to hold space for both race there, get there, understand 263 00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:00.759 the tools, work with the tools. Find find find your 264 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.920 tool that you align with that you can input and 265 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:14.240 output and dance with. Meanwhile, working on the build of you, right, 266 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:19.039 building your inner game. You can play both games. You 267 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.559 can play the race to understand AI and and and 268 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.759 and it's it's it's glory and its intelligence. But don't 269 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:31.640 forget you in the process. Right, The the ability that 270 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:38.000 the self governance of of self leadership, the clean thinking, 271 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.359 that the capacity everything I talk about, the capacity to 272 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:47.000 stay grounded and clear. Right, for most of history in 273 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:53.839 the workspace, that inner work got filed under wellness or 274 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:59.400 self improvement or some optional extra that you would get 275 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:07.680 to someday. That changed, That just changed. The inner game 276 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:14.640 stopped being kind of the footnote, the side note, the 277 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:21.839 the you know, the extra. It became the strategy and 278 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:30.079 your one advantage, right, your one advantage. And so while 279 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.920 everyone else races to go wider, I'm asking you to 280 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.119 go deeper. While everyone learns the tool that everyone else 281 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:44.839 is learning, you build the one thing nobody can replicate 282 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:51.519 that is not a soft play, friends, in this new world. 283 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.640 It is the sharpest, it is the smartest, and it 284 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:03.400 is the most spectacular move on the whole board. Right, 285 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.759 the research is clear on this, Right, these inner capacities 286 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.440 are not fixed. They're they're they're not something that you 287 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:17.640 either have or that you don't have. They are. They 288 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.480 are a renewable asset, which means that they shrink when 289 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.319 you do not use them, and they grow with deliberate practice, 290 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:31.839 which means this, this advantage is available to anyone willing 291 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:37.440 to build it willing. It is not a gift. It 292 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:39.519 is not for the for the for the for the 293 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:43.359 rich and famous, it's not for the few. Okay, it 294 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:48.720 is a practice, and you can start today. Okay, So 295 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.720 a couple of things as I close, I'm not standing 296 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.480 against the machine. Okay, use the tools, use them aggressively, 297 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:00.160 use them brilliantly. I build with augmented intelligence and my 298 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.000 own work, and I believe in it completely. I am 299 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:05.839 building right now an agenic augmented app in dentistry, for 300 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:08.599 data translation and in house coaching. I'm building it right. 301 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.119 This is not a call to run from technology and 302 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:13.880 go be a human in a cabin off grid. The 303 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:17.279 whole point of augmented intelligence is right there in the 304 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:22.160 word augmented. The machine carries the task. You bring the 305 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.160 thing the machine cannot pay. The mistake is trying to 306 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.480 beat a I on AI's turf. Try and out, call 307 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.559 it outproduce it out executed on ross skill, you'll lose. 308 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.799 You'll lose that race, and worse, it is a commoditized 309 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.240 race that was never worth winning. So let all the 310 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:44.720 tools carry the execution. Let them free up your capacity, 311 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:47.359 and then take that freed capacity and pour it into 312 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:51.039 the layer. The tools cannot touch right, the judgment, the presence, 313 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:53.759 the self governance, all the things that we've actually talked about, 314 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:58.279 because augmentation only works if, as I mentioned earlier and 315 00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:01.519 I'm repeating it, there is a developed human on the 316 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:05.880 other end of the tool. The machine plus an ungoverned, eroded, 317 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:13.200 checked out, uh, stressed out, burned out, exhausted human is 318 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:16.920 not augmentation. It's it's just a person that quietly hands 319 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:19.759 over their own capacity, Which then brings me to the 320 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:24.319 real risk that I want to bring real quickly forward. Okay. 321 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:29.200 The risk is not, my friends, that the machine replaces you. 322 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.759 The risk is that you quietly give away your own 323 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:37.119 inner capacity. Okay, The risk is that you allow yourself 324 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:44.519 to be replaced. Okay. The more you offload to the 325 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:49.599 tools without building the inner muscle, the more that muscle weakens, 326 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.240 and the weaker it gets, and the weaker it gets, 327 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:56.640 the more replaceable, you become, not less. The people who lose, 328 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:59.079 who will lose in this new world, are not the 329 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:02.440 ones who refuse to use AI. They are the ones 330 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:05.680 who used it to go to bed, who used it 331 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.319 to go to sleep, who used it to let the 332 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:10.799 tool do the thinking and the deciding, and the feeling, 333 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:14.160 and the and the innovative and and the and the 334 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:19.920 compassion and the curiosity, and never built the self underneath it. 335 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:24.200 And the people who win are the opposite. They use 336 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:26.920 the tools to free their capacity, and then they. 337 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:32.720 Invest that that that time, they invest that freedom into 338 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.720 becoming more themselves, not less, more present, more steady, more clear, 339 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.319 more impossible to replace. 340 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:46.200 Right. So this is not the era that makes you obsolete. 341 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.359 This is the era that finally invites you into more 342 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:54.799 of who you are, you right, and and the inner work, 343 00:26:55.200 --> 00:27:00.160 the most valuable work is there right for your your 344 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.799 entire life. The world rewarded the outer game what you 345 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.440 could do, what you could produce, what you knew, what 346 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.119 you could perform, and it treated the inner game, as 347 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.599 I mentioned, right, the who you are, the self, agency, 348 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:19.640 the government, the depth right as optional a luxury. And 349 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:23.359 that just flipped completely in a world where everyone can 350 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:26.440 do the thing you are underneath. What you can do 351 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:31.519 is now the most valuable thing about you, right, the work. 352 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:33.759 I like to think about it this way too, the 353 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:38.920 work on yourself that nobody was paying you for is 354 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:43.000 suddenly the work that sets you apart from everyone holding 355 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:47.240 the same tools. So you did not lose your advantage. 356 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.200 The world just finally told you where it was hiding 357 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:53.160 the whole time. It was never the skill. It was 358 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.279 always you. You are the advantage, and you are the 359 00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.920 one place you have always had full access to you. 360 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.920 You always were right. So this, beautiful friends, is not 361 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.200 a scary time. This is a sacred time. This is 362 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:13.319 a sacred time. This is our opportunity to be more human, 363 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:18.559 and I believe fullheartedly that this has always been the goal. 364 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:20.920 Right So here's what I want to put in front 365 00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:23.160 of you today, because it's exactly where my people and 366 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:28.079 I are living this whole month, within inner lab. If 367 00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:31.440 you're not in there with us, I am asking you 368 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:37.680 to check it out. I'm asking you to participate, to join, 369 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:43.160 to to to be in the lab with us. This 370 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:47.319 is the place where this podcast, right, this stops that 371 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.519 this then begin, This stops being a podcast that you 372 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:54.240 just not along to. Oh yeah, yeah, that's some good points. 373 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:55.880 Maybe I should write them down. Maybe i'll maybe i'll 374 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:59.240 share it, maybe I won't. And becomes the actual work 375 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:03.240 that you do with real people doing it beside you. Okay, 376 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:10.680 real people doing it beside you. Because when everyone has 377 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:18.680 the same tools you, you become the advantage building you, 378 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.039 having a strategy to build you, having having a place 379 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:28.559 where you can invest back into you. That is why 380 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:34.559 the lab exists, right, It's about It's about building the 381 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.359 one advantage. Like I mentioned that, no one can copy, 382 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.480 no one can download, no one can subscribe to. Right, 383 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:46.119 they can't take you from you. They can't take you 384 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:51.440 from you. So to close the real advantage, so to 385 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.200 want to close, join us, join us in the inner lab. 386 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:57.799 If you've been thinking, maybe I should. Maybe this is 387 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.559 the month. Maybe yes, this is the month, join us 388 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.799 in there. Okay. The real advantage in this new world 389 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:06.079 is not a skill. It is not a skill that 390 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.480 you can list on a resume. It is the depth. 391 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.079 It is the steadiness, it is the clarity. It is 392 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:16.200 the self governing agency of your brilliant leadership. Okay, it 393 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.880 is a self that no person can copy, that no 394 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.839 machine can run okay, And while everyone is racing to 395 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:29.160 get wider, your move, your chest move. The strategy for 396 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:31.480 you that I'm just giving to you right now is 397 00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:34.839 to go deeper, to build the one thing in this 398 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:40.680 entire economy that that cannot be commoditized. You okay, You 399 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.000 so go in world inward while the world goes wider. 400 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.039 You are the one advantage. And if there is somebody 401 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.680