How are you using AI?
It can clearly save a lot of time when used effectively.
I’ve used it for plenty of things like explaining how to set up my website, diagnosing any weird sound my car makes, and making sense of my health insurance plan.
What do all these things have in common?
I don’t really care if I’m good at them. I just want them done well, so I can move on to the things I care about.
Such as playing poker.
Or working with clients.
Or writing these emails.
All these things come with something else as well. There’s an experience of discomfort when we don’t know the answer, or when we’re not good at the thing we want to be good at.
It’s not a big deal.
But being able to handle that feeling of discomfort is the price of admission.
If you never let yourself sit with it?
Then to you, it’ll start to feel like a really big deal every time it shows up.
And that’s what most people seem to be doing.
If everyone is jumping to AI instead of sitting with the discomfort of not knowing something, then expect to see a whole lot more anxious people in the coming years, who have no idea how to just sit with feelings and accept them.
When that happens (when, not if), people will look for more distractions.
More things to alleviate the discomfort, not realizing they’re choosing the discomfort in the first place.
The one place they probably won’t look?
Inside themselves.
Because that’s even more uncomfortable.
And if you can’t handle the first wave, you won’t make it to the second.
But if you want to feel free and calm all throughout your life, and experience clarity through all your decisions, then the price of admission is a little bit of upfront discomfort.
Not a big deal.
Unless you decide to make it one.
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In poker?
Whole lot of discomfort.
And people tend to get really busy, or find all kinds of creative ways to numb it, rather than just feeling it first.
But when it’s your turn to act, and the pressure is on, there’s nothing at your disposal except your own ability to sit there and accept what’s happening inside you.
That’s it.
If you’re not willing to sit with that discomfort, then there’s nothing I’ll be able to teach you.
But if you are, then there’s a giant performance upgrade waiting for you.
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