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Kerry Weston (0:30)

Hey, it's Carrie. What are you gonna be when you grow up? What a tough question to get, even tougher question to answer, especially when you're young. And we're going through it now in our own family as we look at school and life after. And I think there's some parallels to what I'm seeing and hearing in the AI world. And I'm gonna share with you some life advice that correlates to AI advice to help you get through it. If that sounds interesting, stick with me and I'll see you on the other side of foreign. Welcome to the ChatGPT experiment. This is a podcast designed to help curious beginners better understand tools like Claude and Chat GPT and the like to get a nugget of benefit for personal and professional needs. My name is Kerry Weston. I am your host. Glad you're here. Welcome. I want to share with you a parallel perspective on two things that I think are fairly similar. I'm calling it what is AI Going to Be when it Grows up? And the context is this. I have three kids. One has gone through college and graduated already. My second is a junior. And we are now in the beginning stages of looking at colleges. And my youngest is a freshman, so he's watching it all happen. But at the moment, the college conversation is bringing up the cliche questions and the cliche anxieties that we all can relate to, probably remember ourselves, what is it that you want to study? What is it that you want to do? And eventually, what are you going to be when you grow up? Right. It's looking at the real world in the future. And the irony here. Well, not the irony, but the truth is most of the things that are causing anxiety, most of the things that we worry about don't come to fruition or aren't as important as we thought they might be in the moment. And the reason is because they don't understand it. Right. We don't see the other side yet. We don't have that perspective. So we worry about the things that own us. We worry about the things that we think are important. We worry about the things that we don't know. And a lot like life itself, once you get through a situation and look back, you say, well, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, or those things weren't as important, or I could do it all over again, faster, quicker, easier, less stressed. Right. And I'm seeing some similar parallels. This is why it's relevant, right? Why does that matter? Why is the college conversation relevant to AI at all? This podcast, and this is how I make the connection. When I look at beginners that I work with in anything AI, the consistent underlying fear is I am behind. I don't know what to do. This thing is scary. You know, there's. I don't know how to use it. I don't know what this does. I'm not quite sure. Or, you know, I've done it and it doesn't work. And there's a lot of conversation about how do I learn AI and how do I do all these things. And that's similar to how to become an adult, right? Like, how do I graduate college? How do I. Well, let's just take it one step at a time. This is the advice that I'm giving my own kids is one step at a time, because it's all going to be okay. And I'm going to share today five pieces of advice that relates for the life advice I'm giving to my kids, to the advice I'm giving, coaching and teaching AI in hopes that it's relevant to somebody out there. Because there are some. A lot of similarities. Like I had said. And before I do that, I want to share this. Much like life, some of us are the oldest or the only kids and you didn't have anybody that had been through to blaze the trail and give you tips and share with you what's happening and what to look out for and things to think about and how to do certain things that we've never done before, never thought about before, and perhaps never even knew existed in the world. And then we have people that have the older brothers and older sisters and older friends that perhaps gave us those tips and let us see the future. Yeah. And reached back and said, hey, listen, this is the situation. This is what I want to tell you about. This is what you want to think about. On and on and on. And you know, with AI, there's bigs and littles as well. I call them bigs and littles. Some of you listening are very well versed at many things, AI and you're comfortable because you've been using it and you have experimented and you perhaps are the person that people look to as the expert, right? Or the one that knows what they're doing. Perhaps you've been asked to teach, or perhaps you've been asked to show. And perhaps you get annoyed with that because others aren't as up to date as you, you know, and I get it. But I'm gonna put a challenge to the Bigs, okay? The Littles are finding their way, but the Bigs have blazed a trail, and in this instance, they blazed their own trail because there was no one before them looking back to share with them what's going on and how to do it. So you've done it yourself and kudos to that. But you have a responsibility. You have a responsibility not to settle in isolating yourself and your skills and your experience, your expertise and moving forward, but you have a responsibility to share. So if you can just find a way to share what you're learning, what you're doing with someone around you, you are passing the torch of experience. You are helping somebody become more comfortable because there's plenty of Littles out there that need you to do that, okay? Because they have the anxiety. And perhaps you remember, you, you had it too, but this thing is moving so fast that it's not really the same context. But the Bigs, the challenge to you is if you have something to share, if you have something to give, even though, yes, I know, you understand it to be so common sense and so easy that you don't understand why someone can't. The gift that you have to show somebody something that is simple and easy and straightforward to you is a blessing to many because they are on the verge of that anxiety of not knowing what to do next and how it's going to go and how to do it. Okay, so what is AI going to be when it grows up? The Bigs and the Littles. So the five things that I'm kind of correlating here, first thing is soft skills matter. And my sub headline to that is treat others like you'd want to be treated. The advice I give my kids is treat others as you want to be treated, right? Say please and thank you. Look people in the eyes, shake them, say, follow through on your promises. You're going to be the exception. You're going to be in the minority of people that folks are going to meet if you can do those simple things. Soft skills matter. Treat Others the way you want to be treated. Don't let people guess. Share feedback, be generous with comments. Positive feedback matters, right? And in AI and using a tool like Claude or ChatGPT or one of the LLMs, context matters, feedback matters, conversation matters. And in this case I've got a four part framework that perhaps you've heard me say before on the show, but it's a conversation, it's not a prompt, it's not a, it's not a code. So it's a mindset, it's a way of thinking. And the four part conversation is what are we doing? Why are we doing it? What does success look like? And do you have any questions for me? The conversation of sharing context, of sharing what's in your mind, of sharing how someone can help you're delegating, right? This is where the amazing intern AI, the amazing intern philosophy came from. Is thinking of the tool as something that can assist you, but only with proper context. The more context you give it, the better it's going to be for you. Soft skills matter. Treat others like you'd want to be treated. Flip it around. If you were the person in this intern scenario that was being asked to do something, you would want clarity and information and context and the opportunity to ask questions and follow up, right? You would want that opportunity so you could do your best work, so that you could fulfill the trust that's being put in you to do something. And AI is the same way. So soft skills matter. Treat others like you'd want to be treated. Have the conversation, give a context, follow that frame and you'll get better advice. The second is find your thing. Don't worry about what others think, right? Boy, if this is something that I could have learned 20 years earlier, my life would have been more peaceful. And perhaps some of you are thinking the same way. Just find what you care about and that's what matters. Don't spend so much time thinking what others or worrying about whether to think. And why does that matter to AI? Don't worry about what you're seeing on social media as somebody saying you should be able to do this complex 16 part prompt to get AI to do everything but your laundry. Don't worry about people that are automating 52 pieces of software and getting it to replace their job while they go on vacation. Find one thing you don't need to be a complex multi stepped AI agent workflow pro, right? Wouldn't it be great if you could just find something that makes your life a little easier this morning? That could help you save an hour, write a memo faster, do your job quicker, spend more time doing the things that you're good at and less time on the busy work. That's the thing that matters here. So don't worry about what others are doing. Don't worry about what others think. Yes, like my intro says, if you have the opportunity to learn from a big. If you have the opportunity to see and hear about what others are doing, that's going to spur curiosity in your mind. But don't worry about keeping up with the Joneses. Don't worry about being what other people are. Don't worry about learning as fast as others or being as complex as others. Just find something that works for you. Could be a recipe, could be fitness coaching, it could be something at work. Just find something that gives you value, something that gives you output that's relevant, meaningful and helpful to you, and then move on from there. But find your thing, right? Find your thing. Don't worry what others are doing. The third tip is what I call survive in advance and my sub headline is life is not a spreadsheet. Right? I remember my first, my oldest Maddie, when she was planning her college life and life after. It was all on a spreadsheet. It was all planned out. This is what was going to happen and this was going to happen next. And then guess what, life throws a curveball and we get entered into opportunities and situations that we didn't plan for. But those are good things sometimes, right? Because they introduce us to collisions that provide opportunity. And she loves what she's doing. Now, it wasn't on the spreadsheet, but it gave her the opportunity to use her skills to survive and advance. You know, the soft skills that matter, the thinking skills, the critical skills, the foundational stuff. She made the most of what was in front of her and moved on. And so in AI, don't worry about perfect, you know, you're going to have things that don't feel right. But again, just try it. Make mistakes. You know, learn the ability for you to get output from whatever tool you're using and then say that didn't work right, and then analyze it and move forward. In fact, one of the best tools for improving your work. Let's just go with Claude for a second. One of the best tools for improving your output in Claude is cloud itself. The ability for you to say, I gave you this information because I wanted this output and I didn't get what I wanted. I'm going to show you what I don't like about it. Can you analyze what we did so that we can do it better next time? The ability for you to use the tools, the brains, the insights, the analysis of the tool itself to help the tool be better for you is a blessing. That is a secret sauce in some of these LLMs. The ability for you to give it context on feedback as to why you don't like it and what's not working and what you want different. The ability for you to say I don't like this or this wasn't what I wanted and here is why, right? That second part is the most important because everyone can say I don't like it or that's not what I wanted or this doesn't work. But don't let you know, don't, don't force someone to fill in the blanks as to guessing why. You know, in my agency life, when we had a marketing agency for 20 plus years and some of the feedback that we'd get from clients when you did work for them was I don't like it. Well, yes, but what you don't like, what about it? And the inability for folks to actually say out loud to give examples as to what they don't like is one of the short, is one of the ways of getting continued friction, right? Same here is your ability to convey to whatever tool you're using why it's producing something that you don't like is going to give you a lot more value moving forward. And the tool itself is the best way in which to get the tool to work better, if that makes sense. So survive in advance whatever it gives you, process it, communicate it and move on. But use the tool itself to do that. Right? That's part of that context advice that I'm giving. That mindset of we're always getting better, but we're using the tool, we're working with the tool to do it, not just expecting it to be magic, right? Which leads me right into my fourth tip is tuition, not failure. You'll never fail if you learn something, right? You'll never fail if you learn something. So if you are using AI and whatever tool it might be and you're not getting what you want, but you see it as an opportunity to learn as to why, right? You're using the tool, you're giving it feedback and then you see the improvement and the differences, remember that because that's going to set you up to be more successful. Moving on. These aren't independent suspension, independent incidents. And yes, tools have memory and whatnot, but the ability for you to See something that's not working right as tuition. This is something that you'll never fail if you learn something, and that's life advice I pass on to my kids, is that you may not always win, you may not always succeed. In fact, I know you won't. But did you learn something and can you do better? What can you do with it? How can you process it and move on? Same thing with AI. So never look at something that's not working the way it should as a bad thing. Looking at as tuition and an experience to learn something and to get better will always be a positive mindset for you. And the fifth one, if you've been a listener for the podcast at all, my fifth piece of life advice for AI here is be curious, right? And my sub headline, it's a big world. There's lots to see. And do you know there are things that you can get benefit from right now in AI that you haven't thought about, right? There are so many capabilities, there are so many tools, there are so many ways of generating value, personal freedom, meaning time, idea generation, business productivity and efficiency. Maybe starting a business, maybe helping a business, maybe fixing something that's broken, maybe helping yourself, feel better, do better, do more, start a business, travel, whatever it might be. There's so much out there. It's a big world. The AI world is big too, and there's lots to get benefit from. But be curious. The best way for you to use that curiosity is to constantly be asking questions to the tool that you're using. Can you. How can you. This is what I'm thinking of doing. Can you help? This is the job that I have. What can you do to help me do it better? I'm thinking of going to Italy. What is it that you can do for me to help me make the most of my trip? I don't want to waste time or money. I don't feel good. You know, how is it that you can help me understand what's happening to my body? I need to make chicken tonight, whatever it might be. There's so much out there, such a big AI world, and there's lots to see and do. Continually be curious. And don't, don't block yourself off to it's only a tool for writing articles or it's only a tool for doing this, or it's only a tool for doing that. Be curious. What's the worst that's going to happen? Back to the previous one of the previous tips, right? Tuition. You're going to learn something. So if it doesn't go the way you want you learned. You can't do that that way, right? But more than likely you're going to find benefit. But it's a big world. There's lots to see and do. And again, I'm going to go back to bigs and littles Bigs. You've been through this. You've had these tuition moments. You've had these skill advancements. You've seen what's possible. You've taken the risk of figuring out how to do X, Y and Z. Share it, right? Share it. Find someone who can benefit from the lessons that you've learned, the time that you've taken, and the skills that you've actually acquired by doing these things, right? And little's out there. Be curious, right? It's a big world. Soft skills matter. Find that one thing. And don't worry about what others are doing. Don't worry about being the fanciest and the best, the most complete. Just dip your toe in the water. Life is not a spreadsheet. And even if it doesn't go the way you want it to, if you learn something right, you didn't fail. And of course, always, always, always be curious. All right? So my life advice for AI, what is it going to be when it grows up? The whole point here is you don't have to learn AI, right? It's going to be okay. You do have to learn how to interact with it. You do have to learn how to talk to it. You do how to learn how to approach it. But things are going to change so fast. Just like I tell my kids, you don't have to plan for your entire adult life at 17. Learn the stuff that's going to allow you to adapt and advance in a world that's coming to you, right? So you can be best prepared to make the opportunity or make the most of the opportunities that come to you. Because there's so much that's going to happen. There's so much that you're going to see and experience that I can't even share with you, that you can't even think about. But it's up to you to make the most of those opportunities as they come. We don't know what AI is going to look like in the future. We don't know what these tools are going to be. We don't know who's going to be around, what's going to come and what's going to be amazing. But if we learn the basics, the mindset, the principles that will allow us to make the most of any opportunities. We're going to be okay and you're going to be okay. That's my life advice and my AI advice. So I hope that was helpful. If you have any questions, chatgpt experiment.com you can reach me there. I do have some coaching programs for individuals, businesses and speeches for for workshops and seminars and summits. So let me know if you want to connect, reach out and find me there. But of course, the most important element for you being successful in the work you do with any AI tool here is your own curiosity. So until we talk again, do stay curious. Okay?