Being Yourself in the Age of AI

Well, how are you? Come on in here. It's good to have you here today. Thanks for stopping by. By the way, I have brought for you, evidently, a really raspy voice and a tight throat and some sinus issues as well.

Don't know where it came from, but it's what we got today, so we'll make the best of it. Seriously, I have no idea where it came from. My wife said, you're just talking too much. I said, well, how am I going to know that?

She goes, you should know when you talk too much. I said, no idea. It's me, Scott Smith. Good to have you here today. Thanks for stopping by. By the way, some good news for me and probably for you as well.

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So a few weeks ago, I mentioned something about being willing to change everything. I mean, get everything on the table. And be willing to change it. It's funny, my clients were kind of 50-50 on this.

And they're used to me kind of challenging their thoughts. That's what they come to me for because I'm going to give them something to think about that's based on science. It's based on observation, but I'm going to toss it out there and see what they do.

About half of them said, no, I'm good. And the other half said, yeah, I'll change anything. But after a week went by, they were all like, yeah, well, it depends. I guess, yeah, we'd be willing to.

And that's kind of where it all gets to. We put this stuff out there and then people start thinking about it. And yeah, it'd be kind of cool. So this is not a goal setting show, but let me start there.

And now I'm going to roll through something and teach you kind of how to be yourself. Some things you need to do these days in the age of era of AI. Yeah, a little clickbaity there, but you know, it's hard to get discovered these days. So we've got to be a little bit clickbaity anyway, but there's some cool stuff coming.

So Benjamin Hardy, Dr. Benjamin Hardy wrote a book. It's called The Science of Scaling. Have you read it yet? It's worthy of reading. One of the cool parts about it is basically really advanced goal setting.

I 100% agree with the science in this book. I've studied it a long time. If you're still studying theory of goal setting, what's that, 55, 60 years old now? Or you're still using smart goals, which I just don't advise anybody to use.

I know all the life coaches are going to scream at me right now. No, don't use it. The R in smart goals says be realistic. You are going for mediocre if you do that.

There is no goal that's worthy of going for that's realistic. When it's out there, you can imagine getting it, but it scares you just a little bit. That's how goal setting works. And that is not me saying it.

That's not Benjamin Hardy saying that. That's science. That's how the brain works. Everything else is old. Don't try it anymore. I will not do that. I won't advise anybody to do smart goals now.

In Dr. Hardy's book, he talks about setting the scale. This is something that's so big it scares you, and you've got to push and push and push to get to it.

Most people I've worked with can't get to the biggest framing, as he says. They can't get there in one conversation. Sometimes it takes weeks of them thinking to elevate, elevate, elevate. You have to kind of break through a level and a level and a level to get there to see the whole thing.

Regardless, you set the big frame. But the other thing that confuses most people, and which is why when I say put everything on the table, this is kind of where this comes together.

He says raise the floor. In his case, the floor means all the stuff you're not going to do. So if you want to go for a big goal, the only way you're going to get there is to get rid of a bunch of other stuff. Can't do it all.

So you got to get rid of stuff. And that's the hardest part. Giving up what you think you need to do, what you don't really need to do. A lot of the stuff you're doing right now is in your way.

I know. I'm just like you. It happens to me too. So difficult to get rid of the stuff so you can focus on what you want to do. That's where he set the framing for the show today.

By the way, he talks about taking action too, but that's the easy part, right? Once you get it figured out, it's like, are you with me on this one? Yeah, if you just explained to me what to do, if I had the idea, if I knew what I was going to do, I'd just go do it. Action's easy once you know how to do it.

Motivation becomes automatic. So if you could change something or everything and you want to, what would it be? By the way, most people I know get feeling stuck sometimes over something.

I've also found over time, and the science shows this to be true as well, and I've seen it in my own clients. If you found yourself suddenly free of responsibility, and maybe somebody gave you a lot of money, being a billionaire overnight, right, and you're just free, what would you change?

Most people would change a lot. All the stuff you don't like would be gone. It works the other way around, too. Some people are completely broke, don't have a penny, two pennies to rub together, and they're like, whatever.

You know, if it doesn't matter because you don't have anything or if it doesn't matter because you have so much, you're going to do what you want to do.

Most people I know are somewhere in the middle. I'd probably be out of business if they weren't. Most people are in the middle. It's probably where you are, too.

If you're a mom, if you're a dad, career, maybe sports, winning a game, something like that. I think being your best always comes down to a couple of things. Let me go through a quick list of some ideas here. I jotted down for you just a little bit ago before I got on this podcast.

Number one, you're always going to do better if you do what you love and are good at naturally. And you hear people talk about this all the time, but notice what I said.

Good at naturally. You will always have an edge over others when you stay in your wheelhouse. By the way, I personally found something. There is a big difference between your skills,

And your gifts. My clients are the same. I'm the same. Growing up, I would have good skills and do pretty good if I worked really hard enough. But I had a lot of gifts in a lot of areas.

I could ride my gifts beyond anybody who had great skills. But when you put skills and gifts together, watch out. Here's the thing I see with a lot of people and something to think about.

You're getting out of bed and living your day. It's what you do, but it's really your skill set that you're doing every single day. And you're proud of it and you love it and you're doing it, maybe.

But is it what your gift is? Is it what you're put on this planet for? There is a difference. And once you notice what that gift is and then you start applying skills to that, your world changes.

I used to laugh about American Idol. I don't watch it much anymore, but I used to watch it a good amount like a lot of people. And I would laugh at these kids at being 18 years old. I'm not working my whole life to do this.

My whole life, they're 18. Naturally good singers, but when you watch the videos, you realize they've been singing since they could talk. They've been performing since they could walk.

Naturally gifted. Worked really hard. Put it together. Watch out. Just because you perfect your skills does not mean your path is going to be easy. Got to have that gift in there.

Your unique gift. So use it. When you use your unique gift and those skills, you become unbeatable. The trick is to figure it out. This one has changed a little bit in the world of AI.

You need to commit your focus toward mastery. Being a jack of all trades doesn't really work. Specialists always win over generalists. Now I just said that because that line was actually written from a note I had written many, many years ago.

And as I put it in there, I said, okay, this is cool. That used to be the thing. And in some cases it still is. You certainly want like your, like when I had my hip replaced, I wanted my orthopedic doctor.

To be a specialist, for sure. An expert, actually. But we live in the world now of AI, where becoming an AI specialist is not really the key here at this point. In fact, because information is now dominated by AI, the vast majority of the population isn't using it for what it can do yet.

But once they begin to, they're going to realize that all the information they ever wanted, all this information specialists used to give them that they ever wanted is now right on your phone. As quickly as you can ask ChatGPT, it's going to give you the answer.

So what's really coming around these days is being more of a generalist, understanding everything that's happening. So you can take all these little queries in a chatbot and then put the human experience on top of that and then discern what's right and what's wrong.

That's really the key right now. So you kind of have to be like an AI wrangler, sort of. A generalist that kind of knows a lot about a lot of specialists and can manage all the specialists. That's kind of where this is going.

Now, this doesn't apply for everything, for sure. But for a lot of people in the working world these days, absolutely. So it's change. If you don't believe me, just do a little research, you'll pick up on the trend right now.

For years and years and years, they said, be a specialist, be an expert. Still applies in some areas. But the vast majority of people, they better broaden it out a little bit. It just depends on what you're going to do with your time.

Another thought is spend more time doing than learning. There is a huge difference between knowledge and wisdom. Huge. I used to work in the knowledge field all the time.

But I studied so much. I studied constantly. I still study ridiculous number of hours per week. I just like doing it. But I only pay for my knowledge.

And certainly in the days of AI, I really do not. Because I will be on the phone talking to somebody and they're on ChatGPT while they're talking to me.

I can't win. ChatGPT is smarter than I am. Smarter than you are. Smarter than almost everybody. Almost all together. It is the wisdom that succeeds. AI can confuse a lot of people.

It's human interaction and experience that really matters. So as this thing begins to grow, and I understand that I study it more than most people, but I also live in a world among regular people. And I see people are kind of drifting along thinking, well, what am I going to do here?

Get out of the learning mode, get just enough, then get out and do stuff and be human about it. Watch what happens. Life will change. If you're a Zumi, by the way,

You need to hear this if you're under 30 years old. You guys are in love with AI. It's kind of all you do. I get it. You were raised on screens, first generation, just to be all digital.

But you really, really need to wrangle up some AI, some bots or something, instead of just reading all the time. The survey is about the younger people under 30 seeing AI as basically their coach.

It's just information, information, information. And they're just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. And the challenge is it doesn't transfer into the regular world.

Something to think about at least, right? Hiring a coach. If you are at the top of your game and you want to go from second place to first place, you got to hire a coach.

I hire coaches. People hire me. Why? It's faster. It's more fun. I can read a book. A book is a great way to go because a book has, I mean, you're taking somebody's life work and literally getting it for $19.95.

ChatGPT is great for that as well. It's all good. It's all smart. It's cool. All my clients are smart, but they hire me. Why? To sort things out. My perspective, my particular experience saves them years and probably hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I hire coaches do the same thing for me. It's their experience. They can just one answer. Boom. I'm off and running for a month. Hire a coach if you don't have one.

I know you don't need one. Get an AI coach. It's okay to a certain level. Watch what happens when you get to the level and see who they're hiring. Keep going until you get what you want.

Never stop. Never make excuses. I've said that for years. I've updated it. Here's a caveat for you. If you're not doing and using your gifts and happy at what you do, don't keep going.

Be a good quitter. I get yelled at all the time. The only thing I get yelled at more about, if I say no smart goals, I get yelled at. If I say be a good quitter, I get yelled at.

You guys are so used to sticking with it. I got to stick in the game, man. It's going to be my permanent record. I got to stick. No, you don't. If you're not happy, if you're not using your gifts, if it's not going your way, freaking quit.

You have options. Be smart about it. Don't do it today. Don't huff and puff. Be smart. Just stop and stop making excuses that it's okay that you'll get there someday.

Life is so much shorter than you think. It really is. It flies so fast. I waited for a long time. I said, you know what? I'm 50. I'll be beautiful. And then I got old like overnight.

It was crazy. So you see, I spend a lot of time talking about this. I always have. Ever since I was 18, I've been talking about this and I've gone out and lived my life this way.

And I happen to have now the experience of 40 plus years of me living and kind of doing what I want to do. And now almost 25 years of coaching and working with tens of thousands, if not hundreds and thousands of people around the world.

Yeah, I got my PhD, as Tony Robbins says, in results and people. And you begin to notice things. You begin to see things that happen. And ultimately, it comes down to being very, very simple.

So there's a tone that comes out on my show is if you listen to this, you might just poo-poo and run past it. But right now, I tell you what, as I'm talking, I know somebody's listening right now.

There's a few words or something that popped out during this mushy podcast I did with my head voice and everything else. You're going, hey, wait a second. That's kind of making some sense to me.

A few thoughts to share with you today. So bottom line is you got to get out of bed tomorrow morning. Most of us aren't going to lay around and go, oh, I don't want to get up. We're going to get up and do something, right?

I don't know. I just have to assume if you listen to this kind of show, you kind of want a little more than you got. That's kind of what I'm thinking. You want a little bit easier.

You want something, right? I'm not talking to somebody who doesn't want anything. You're here. And if you are here, I don't know why. Anyway, glad to have you.

Anyway.