Embracing the AI Revolution

I just saw a great video by a gentleman by the name of Travis who was talking about the "AI apocalypse" claiming that we're going to have a shortage of talent. But are those two going to intersect? Are they going to bump into each other? Obviously, they will.

I go back to one fundamental thing that we are very focused on here at Progress Coaching, coachability. On a YouTube channel I just saw, a young lady talked about being a generalist. She's a jack of all trades and it was really a great thing to see because I've always thought people would have to specialize to be effective. I'm almost wondering if we're coming full circle. Let me explain.

When I think about what's coming, we're going to have to use AI. You're going to have to become skilled or at least a user in some fashion. As I do this podcast, I just saw one of the greatest little tools on podcasting. I didn't quite understand it at first, but essentially what they do is they take one of your podcast episodes, they build it around a WordPress plugin and then converts it into a form. Once you fill out the form, it sends back suggestions based on your form specific to the content of the podcast. That's a really creative idea.

As an owner, I cannot ignore those things. For years, people have made fun of me because I have ADD and obviously the shiny object syndrome might be one of the best skill sets I've ever had. Has it been a distractor and at times, caused a lack of focus? Oh my gosh, yes. When we're coaching, we have to be really widespread in what we're doing, and what I mean by that is we have to be very conscientious of the things that we're doing to gain traction with our careers.

Here's an example. If you do manual editing at a newspaper, you will not be doing manual editing at a newspaper in two years, if not now. So what are you going to do, go into your boss's office and say, "The tool does it faster, but I don't want to switch careers..." What are you going to do? Where do you think that mindset is going to take you down the road?

Let me ask you, where do you think people need to embrace the change? When do you think people need to really look in the mirror and say, "I need to explore coachability here."

Coachability is about understanding yourself that when someone's giving you feedback, advice, mentoring, coaching, guidance, that it's not personal-- it's for your well-being. We spend so much time resisting and pushing back the feedback that we fail to realize it's really just cloaked in perception.

If we opened up that door to perception, we probably would become more skilled. We probably would be well prepared for what's about to come.

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