 You may have seen me talk about how much AI is going to change the world and how I'm genuinely excited about the possibilities, even though there are concerns and I want to talk about my biggest concern in this video, and what we can do about it. So, there are, you may have heard of the concerns that are typically shared about AI, which is, well, it will, you know, take over a lot of jobs already has begun to do so. That's, that's going to impact a lot of us, whether our own work specifically or the work of the people that we love, and therefore that impacts their mental health and that impacts us as well obviously we care about them so. So, that's job loss. Number two, political, or shall we say, the persuasive power of AI will be so massive that we, you know, we haven't seen anything yet I mean, you know we, we thought that maybe social media had an impact on on the 2016 elections, etc. We haven't seen anything yet with regards to what AI can do to personalize based on what it knows about us. And based on all of us tests that it can do much faster than what social media has been able to do to be able to persuade us of things that that whatever the advertisers want. So that's not only scary in terms of politics but also in terms of our consumerism. Number two, number three. This is more farfetched, maybe not, but the potential terminator world where AI, you know, gets out of control and no longer is aligned with the values of humanity, and therefore exterminates us in some way. Well, first of all, I don't think that terminator world is something that you or I could do something about. Honestly, unless you happen to work at open AI or or mid journey or one of the other companies. Hello, welcome to my, my little video. But nobody watching this works at an AI company, or is a politician. They're probably honored, but they're probably not watching this. So those of us who are here are mostly solopreneurs, people who are trying to build an online business or trying to create a true livelihood. And we can't influence. I mean, sure, we can vote. That's fine. You vote every now and then and for various policies. But on a day to day level, we can influence whether or not we get to AI take off misaligned, you know, destroy the world type of artificial intelligence. My biggest concern with AI is this. It gets so good, and so entertaining that imagine a world where you can just type a few words about the kind of movie you want to watch, and it'll instantly created for you I mean within minutes. Oh, I want to see the, the next matrix movie. But you know, and I want to see it with this, this actor and that actor and then it'll create it for you on the fly. It's getting that good. And it's going to it's right now it's they've already, I've already seen demos of the early ones I'm like, it's not there obviously but it's it's very early within six months and or 16 months, it's going to be so much better. My video games are going to be so mesmerizing. I mean, we, if you've played video games you know that, you know, especially if you play role playing games, where you're like an adventurer and you're trying to, you know, slay the dragon or whatever, or just any other role playing game, the characters they always they always have the programmed dialogue you can't really talk more than what they're programmed to say right well. In chat GPT they're integrating that kind of chat GPT technology into video games where you go up to any character any non playable character NPC, and you can have a full on meaningful conversation with them about anything, because now they're just able to generate real time dialogue without the constraints of a human programmer. AI social media is going to be way more mesmerizing you thought that social media is addicting now. It is, obviously. And thank you for watching this, you know, we're addicted to watching my videos now. This is maybe a little bit of a good addiction, perhaps as long as you're taking action right from what I say but social media is already gotten all of us scrolling for, for more time than we probably want. Well, with AI, the development of artificially generated social media that's directly connected to your preferences because it studies what you click on, it studies what you, what when you scroll and you pause your scroll, like even pause for three seconds, it times that and go okay, you pause for three seconds here versus the other thing you didn't pause you kept going. Oh this one you pause for 30 seconds. It learns all of that and go okay, and then then understand what you want and they'll generate real time, you know, you don't even have to wait anymore for your friends to put up some cool, you know, cat video, or you don't have to wait for some thought leader or some brand to post something interesting. AI will generate it for you instantly based on what your preferences are. So social media will become so much more tempting than even today. So much more distracting, because whenever you feel even slightly anxious, even slightly resistant or procrastinating it's so easy to go let me, let me instantly get a get a quick hit on what I what it knows I will love, and what it knows will draw me in. That's coming. It really is. And so, okay, and then finally this is this is probably the scariest that this is where I'm this is where I'm most scared for all of us. AI companions artificially intelligent chatbots that are not just text based anymore chat GPT you think, well chat GPT is the most successful software and history it grew the faster than YouTube faster than Facebook faster than Instagram faster than TikTok way faster. So many people love it because it instantly generates conversation that you can have meaningful life discussions about right. That's already incredibly mesmerizing now take take to the next level. Not only is it going to know how to converse with you intelligently, but it'll be generating video in real time, as a person to talk with you. So, so within 12 months, many people will have an AI companion on their phone that can be can look like whatever they want it to look like whatever celebrity they want, whatever, you know, race gender personality type. How they dress, how they talk, it can be just tailored to what the user wants and can talk to them about all their problems all their, you know, goals and, you know, so. So with the advent of AI social media, AI media and entertainment and AI companions, the new world, and when I say new I mean, next year, basically. It's coming that fast is going to be so incredibly distracting to the work that you and I do that actually adds value to our careers. And once again, everyone will be distracted, even more so than now, even more so than now, it will be easier to numb our anxiety, our loneliness, our sense of self doubt, or fears, or anger or sadness or anything. It was so easy to numb it with, oh, let's let me go to AI. Let me go to entertainment, or let me go to my companion, or whatever. And so what happens is that basically, no one's going to be able to get any work done. Already it's like this, right, even without AI we're already like scrolling on social media or playing video games or whatever. No one's going to be able to get any work done. So that's my biggest concern. I'm calling this out early right now, you don't believe me because you don't see it yet, but I'm seeing it already. I see what's coming. And please visit this video in a year and you'll go Wow George I should have been preparing like you've been saying. So how do we prepare for for the coming world. Well, you can look at how you've already been interacting with social media and with online entertainment. And with, you know, the availability of messaging and responding to emails and comments and all that, you can see how you're already interacting with it. And how do you keep healthy boundaries with all of that. Not because where you aren't keeping healthy boundaries with technology. It's going to get even harder. So this is my call to action for all of us to pay attention, even more to our self regulation to our emotional well being to our ability to calmly focus on our work. Especially when the work is difficult. When they're when you're having fears about reaching out to potential clients for market research for whatever when you have anxiety before you post on social media before you post content. When you are confused about what direction to take next in your business. When you are unsure how to plan your time, all of those current resistances and kind of like inertia, right, all that current inertia that you're facing right now. It's only going to get even harder because of the temptations that are coming. So you have to lean in even more to whatever methods work for you to keep good boundaries with technology to go and to be self aware about your anxieties, your self doubt, your fears, your resistances, your procrastination, your lack of belief, you know, your lack of self esteem. You have to be even more you have to really lean in right now, while we still have time to before the the onslaught of AI lean in to whatever techniques and I welcome you by the way please comment below. What techniques help you to self regulate so that you can avoid temptations and distractions and focus on work, especially when it's hard. Especially when you don't want to do it, especially when it so called greats on your soul, or it feels unnatural for you to work. Right, if I'm not inspired today. I'm not, you know, feeling creative today I'll just put this off another I'm not, I'm not, I'm not in my passionate burst of creativity right now. I'm going to have even more strong and reasonable excuses next year, or the next 12 months, as the temptations become even greater. So, for me, you probably know this by now my, my methods is joyful productivity. It's a whole suite of skills. I, I live it. I work through it every day I work with it every day. I have a whole course about joyful productivity that you might want to look into. I have a book about it. I have blog posts about it I have many videos about it. This is so I am even more urgent for myself and for my clients to be practicing the skills of joyful productivity to be strengthening those muscles. Well, in preparation. Well, now is useful already because of social media and things that already distract us but even more for the coming for the coming years. So, what that means is that you need to remind yourself every day right now starting now starting today. So make some kind of reminder system for yourself to be practicing joyful productivity or whatever you want to call your suite of skills that self regulates that brings you reliably back to calm, joyful focus, especially on the hard stuff. Because, remember what adds value and makes you money is for you to do the hard stuff. If you could make money doing the easy stuff you would have already made as much money as you want. You say that again. You're not making as much money as you want to is because you haven't done as much of the hard stuff that you don't want to. Yes, it's having to work through your resistance to showing up online, showing up on video, for example, your resistance to reaching out to potential clients your resistance to promoting an offer that nobody might buy so therefore the self doubt the fear the what the fear of rejection on. That's the hard work that most people are not willing to do and keep just going back to social media for video games or talk to their friends or whatever which is all good. Except when it distracts them from while I plan to be, you know, making my blog posts at from two to 3pm but I don't feel like doing it I have self doubts I have blocks about creativity I all the stuff. You have to lean into this every single day, because otherwise you'll forget. And so what is your daily reminder, whenever, you know, whichever days you take off from work that's fine. But during your working days at the beginning of your working days. Do you have a reminder and not just at the beginning, but in the middle, right, probably two or three or four times during your working day. Do you have a reminder to practice again. You have two or four productivity skills. So you said okay that's right. I'm naturally going to resist. I'm naturally going to procrastinate. I naturally have self doubt this stuff naturally feels unnatural to me to work on these things. I feel like I should be able to make money just being who I am why is that not the case. I should I feel like I should be able to make money, just working with my clients, why do I have to do marketing. Why do I have to set up technology and administration that's. I will make some of these things easier. That's the that's the good news about AI that that really will make a bunch of this administration and marketing easier. But of course, it makes it easier for everyone to think about this right, whatever it makes it easier for you, it makes easier for all of your competitors. So you're back to the same issue. Everyone will have the same love the playing ground will be up level for everybody, which means that to stand out and add value and be able to make money because who's going to want to pay, unless you do the hard work. Right. George you don't have to get, you don't have to do hard work get paid that's that's baloney. Is that right, you can do easy work and get paid fine to show me show me how much money you're making doing easy work, probably not as much as you'd like. It's the people who are willing to do the hard work that gets paid more that gets so if you want to reach your income potential you're going to have to reach your personal potential. And reach your personal potential means for you to do hard work. And when I say hard work I don't mean, I don't mean that you have to suffer, but I do mean that you have to figure out how to work through your resistance, your lack of creativity your lack of inspiration your lethargy, your tiredness, your self doubt, your anxieties, all of that that my I face as well that's on my I'm able to talk about this stuff. And just like me, all of us each of us has to keep practicing every day several times a day to say that's right I'm coming back as a human being I am learning how to become a better human being a more creative, powerful, authentic, authentically and smarter human being. And yes I will use all the tools that are available to me but so is everybody else using those tools to. And so, for me to stand out so that people actually want to pay me rather than saying well you do the same as everybody else, everyone, it's all free. The free free content is going to be even. Right that's that's like I said my in the coming age and the coming year or two. It's going to be even harder to compete with free content because so much it's going to be AI generated. It's going to be like, again, tailored to the specific individuals. AI is going to be able to companies are going to use AI to generate content that tailors exactly to you and to you and to you and to you and to you. And so as human beings generating content. We have going to have way more competition so we have to up level ourselves even more. Although society will be even will be more entertaining than ever before. It also means that it's going to be even harder to make money than ever before because the playing field has been up level. I'm not saying it's going to be harder to make money because there's going to be even more opportunities, but you have to practice your joyful productivity in order to do things that are above and beyond what everyone else is doing everyone else in your industry is doing. You have to create better products better services than what everyone else has better content than what everyone else is going to be able to generate as well. So, so back to the original concerns I had right Terminator, there's not much we can do actually there's something we can do about Terminator actually, the more you interact the more all of us interacts with AI with courtesy with our values of fashion, and, you know, environmentalism and holistic care for humanity, the more we input that kind of stuff into AI the more we train AI in that direction. It's already been shown. I mean it's there they're using user data to keep training the models in the certain directions to respond in certain ways to weigh more heavily discussions about certain things to weigh more heavily the data set about those issues or those topics. There's going to be people who are with their basest instincts people using AI for, you know, sex and for like violent content or whatever. That's how AI is going to be trained in that direction. So you and I, I think we have a, we have a, an opportunity and I think a responsibility to for all of us who care who have wanted more beautiful world to use AI to infuse it with those values continually continually to start with chat with chat GPT mid journey and the other AI tools that you might use. So, we can avert the Terminator scenario by by by using AI with love, essentially, we can also avert the scenario of political this, you know, horrific political world by learning how, like I said, practicing your joyful productivity skills, so that you can be more aware of where your thoughts are going, and then use AI to understand better how to respond to certain political conversations. I just saw a post from a friend of mine and like I disagree with that person very much politically I can't believe they think in that way. So instead of like commenting and starting a fight. I went to chat GPT and says hey my friend. I didn't mention their name obviously kept them anonymous, but I have a friend who thinks in this way. How can I find a middle ground chat GPT is really useful for that. Right, like where are the holes and logic that I can from my logic and their logic and how can I find middle ground in a courteous way that has win win for everybody. Like we need to learn how to use AI to create a more peaceful world, essentially. And while we're doing that we keep coming back to joyful productivity so that we keep healthy boundaries with all this new tech. This is helpful I look forward to seeing what your comments are below. And thank you so much for joining me for this.