I Spent a Year Learning AI. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

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It's not about how to make money with AI or how to use the computer or agents or bots or things like that. No, it's really kind of what we've had to go through to get here and what you probably have felt in the process and maybe what you're feeling right now. And I'm going to let you off the hook if that's okay. Hang on for the ride.

I've done this in the past couple of weeks with my clients. I'm going to share it with you today and I think it might give you a different perspective. That's why I'm going to share it.

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Mm-hmm. Thanks for that, by the way. Anyway, my name is Scott Smith. Good to have you. Thanks for stopping by. Feeling a little funky this week. A little frisky.

It seems to be going around with me in the past couple of weeks. Also a little raspy. If you hear the raspy voice that I have, you know I've been working my butt off talking to people. My wife says, you're not working.

You're just talking. I said, I get paid to talk. Let's talk about AI today, okay? Now, before I get into this, again, I'm not going to be technical about this.

And this might get a little ranty. It just might. I actually re-recorded it because the last one got too ranty. So I had to go back and kind of fix it a little bit.

So I get a little ranty, but not heavy stuff. So hang on for the ride because there's a reveal here in just a little bit that I think you're going to go, oh, okay, I'm good. But a lot has changed if you think about it. In the past few years, AI has kind of ridden in like a galloping horse, hasn't it?

Have you ever been out to, you know, the American West and you're driving down the highway and there's this, so what's that cloud of dust over there? It's just dust. It's moving. Where's that dust?

And then you get closer and you realize it's like a herd of Mustangs, wild horses. Running across the desert. It's so cool to see. I'm sure it still happens.

But that's kind of what AI has been. And say what you will about it, it's pretty cool stuff. It's pretty magical. It's also pretty scary, isn't it? Another truth about AI is here to stay.

Why is that? Because people, Americans, people all around the world, they like easy. We all like easy. It's just wired into us. We want things to be easy.

We don't want to work at it very hard. And AI is easy on some levels. On other levels, it's kind of hard. But for the most part, it's easy. It's going to get easier.

It's coming. We're not going to stop it because people want easy. It's just what it is. Now, you don't need to learn it. It's coming anyway. You'll be impacted by it no matter what.

It doesn't matter who you are. I firmly believe that 90% of the population in the world is not going to learn anything about AI. Not a thing. It's just going to be in their phones and in their home and in their car and every place.

They don't even know they're not going to care. I get it. However, if you run a business, you better be smart to use it. You're going to go out of business if you don't.

You won't be competitive if you don't use it. Secondly, it's actually more fun to build it into your business. If you're mid-career in corporations, you know full well, particularly if you're like maybe around 50-ish, kind of 40 to 55 years old, you're maybe upper leadership right now, you're making the decisions, bringing AI in there, and you know full well your turn is coming.

We haven't seen that other foot job yet, have we? Not yet. AI is in, but it's not really being used. Headcounts are so large. It's going to change. A lot is going to change.

So there's a bunch going on, but you have to take something here and really take this to heart and just remember this as I say it. This is bigger than this little conversation I'm having right now. This is not just tech.

This is the entire world. It's a lifestyle and a lifestyle change that's just kind of been put on us, even if you hide. I think if you're retired and you've stocked your money away all those years and you've decided just to sit on the lazy boy and do crossword puzzles, you're good. Maybe.

We'll see. Do any of us really know? I don't know. I just know it's coming. So I accept it. So for years I've said you better learn how to use it. Whether you want it or not, it's just going to be part of your lives.

So keep that in mind. Now, by the way, I've been using AI at a pretty deep level for three years. It's been around four years. For the first year, I was like, I don't need that.

What's this chat thing? That's where I was. You might still be there. I didn't care. At about three, about a year into it, I went, maybe I should care.

And I started looking at it. And I kind of saw what was coming. So I dug deeper than most people do. It took about a year to do it. I stressed myself out.

I stayed up late. I made apps. I did everything you can imagine. Now, I'm a technical guy. I always have been. I've had computers around forever. I bought a VIC-20 when I was 19 years old, and it cost like $300.

That was really a lot of money for a 19-year-old who made no money to go buy a computer back when it was really expensive. So I've had computers forever, but I don't consider myself a tech guy who programs and codes. I get by, but for the most part, I use it as a tool. I always have.

But I dug deep because I saw what was coming, and I also have clients who I have clients who are right in the middle of their business and right in the middle of their life, and they were freaking out by it. I said, let me go learn this thing. And I kind of emerged as an expert.

And I also emerged in a different way. I emerged in a place where I began to use it as a real tool versus, you know, having to make money with AI and build your apps and all that kind of stuff. People are doing vibe coding. I did all that stuff, but I emerged beyond that.

I said, no, let's just make it a tool that works. I don't even use a lot of bots. You know why? Because I figured, well, why get a bot to do some of the work?

Let me just go back and fix the work so I don't need the bot to do it. So I kind of emerged to make it a real efficient tool for myself. And that's what I teach when I'm talking to my clients. Again, I don't teach AI.

It's more like, well, okay, what's going on? Let's see if we can make this work. What did I do? What did I do? Napoleon Hill talks about a lot of things that are really good for us.

And you should pay attention. But one thing he talks about in The Strangest Secrets. Das ist ein Eingell. Man, ich habe mich totalen, nicht ich? Anyway, das ist ein viel, man.

Ich habe den Preis. Ich habe den Blood, Sweat und Tears. Ich habe den Preis. Das ist die ganze Welt. Ich habe den Preis. Du hast den Preis. In everything you're going to do.

If you want to start a business, there is a price to be paid. It's going to take you time to learn the skill sets, to do what you want to do, to get the time to do it, to have the money to last it. It doesn't matter what you want to do. And you know this.

I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. But the last thing you wanted to do was sit down and learn something called AI and put all that time in. Eventually, personally for me, I got through the learning curve. I found my groove.

I did something this past week that blew my mind. It took me something that had taken probably a week to do, even a year ago. I got done in two hours. It was crazy and it was fun.

It was better than I would have done a year ago. So a lot of things that I use to run my business, to be very frank with you, have gotten kind of ponderous. I've done this a long time. There's a lot of stuff that used to be really hard.

This media business that I'm in, this coaching business, a lot of things are really difficult to do. And you get to the point where it kind of runs you down like, man, I don't want to do it anymore. We'll hire somebody else. Well, then you can't count on those people, can you?

It's a problem. AI has made it much easier. I just leaned into it and suddenly the drudgery is gone. Suddenly it's fun again. Suddenly I can just say, okay, I'll do the fun stuff, let you do the grunt stuff.

That's cool. But I had to remind people in my school group last week, in my inner circle group, and even my clients individually, I was talking to them about this. And I think this is what they pay me for. They pay me for the nuance between the lines.

I figure things out for people. And I'm just widely, broadly skilled. And I can give them insight that maybe they've been dreaming about, nightmaring about, thinking about, but haven't figured out. Nightmaring about?

Hmm, that's a new way of saying things. But what I reminded them about was... In the past three or four years, you and I and everybody else in this world has had to learn how to deal with a new world. Everything's gotten faster and different.

We can't see what's coming up. Can't see what's going on. And many of us had to sit down and learn a new skill called artificial intelligence. We had to go back to school.

We had to take courses. And if you're smart, you just took as many as you could until you learned it. Did you ever expect to have to do that? Most people I know in their 40s and 50s never expected that they would have to sit down and learn this crazy thing called artificial intelligence.

You went back to college again, and this time you had to pay for it. It's like, where am I going to get through this? And depending on what you're doing, you can see, and some business owners don't even know how they're going to make money with it. A lot of people are saying, well, how am I going to get paid?

If the robots take over, it's a big, complicated thing. I can see where it's heading these days. Not that I know, but I'm beginning to relax a little bit about where it's actually heading because I'm starting to see how it's actually used. But let me just leave you with this.

If you haven't started, that's a choice. You don't have to do it. But if you're in business, If you're actively participating in the world with other people and all that stuff, you better get good at it.

And if not, it's going to just come and do things anyway. But what you have to learn is this. I know you don't want to do the work. I know you don't want to sit down and put in all the time and study and all the frustration and everything else.

I can't figure this stuff out. I'm not a tech person. I know you don't want to do it. But man, life has changed. We put ourselves, we didn't put ourselves, but this is where we are right now and the world has changed.

And I can't tell you where it's going to go in the future here. I can't tell you, you know, I think most things are going to be pretty, pretty much the same for a very long time to come, but I can tell you, it's not going to be the same forever. Most people don't like it to feel that way. So I can remind you that you've done this so many times before.

Dozens of times in your life. See you tomorrow.