The Exchanges

Q Could we rapid fire, like, what are all the ways that people are not using AI right now that they absolutely should?

A I'll give you one way that if you just focus there, you'll get 80% of the value. What is the biggest problem that you are facing right now? That if you could just solve it, it would unlock a huge amount of value for you. This can be personal or professional. And then instead of going to AI and asking it questions like it's Google, go to AI and engage it as a strategic thought partner To interview you about how you're currently thinking about solving that problem, and then show you the non-obvious approaches you could implement that would lead to faster results. And a very simple framework for that is correct. Give it lots of context. Assign it a role where you tell it the kind of expert you want it to be, but then make it interview you by asking one question at a time between three and five questions to gain deeper context so it can then accomplish a task, which is whatever you want it to do.

AI assessment note: “I'll give you one way that if you just focus there, you'll get 80%”

Q that he was thinking on. So I feel like a lot of times people with AI, you can go to the lowest common denominator, which is like a slob cannon, or you can go to actually a little bit of a superhuman with AI. What do most people do wrong with AI besides asking the questions? Cause I found that's, that was so important when you taught that to me.

A You familiar with the eighty-twenty rule? Yeah. So 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. Most people are using this for the 80% tasks that only drive 20% of the value. They're not asking what are the 20% applications that could drive 80% of the value in my business or in my personal life. They're defaulting to using it like Google or to write better emails. It's not entirely their fault. Most people spend most of their days in the 80%. That's just like this huge challenge across the board in work today. It brings some value, but it's not transformative. And my, and by the way, I used to be that guy. Um, when I first started using chat, I was a C-level exec for a public company based out of India, and I was literally using it to write better emails. And I remembered thinking, my greatest superpower is asking leaders the right questions to drive growth. Here I am asking AI questions. And that's when I wondered, Cody, could I turn the tables and make AI ask me the right questions to make me think more strategically? Because I know how valuable that is in a business or a personal context. And that's when I discovered this idea that you are the thought leader. AI is your thought partner. And if you choose to view it that way, it can truly be transformative. And I'm talking any generative AI tool, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grot, Perplexity, it does not matter which tool.…

AI assessment note: “Most people are using this for the 80% tasks that only drive 20% of the value.”

Q you out to our headquarters in Austin, Texas, to learn more about how we help small business owners double, triple their revenue with just one of these 12 P's. You can click the link below to see if you are a fit for the contrarian boardroom. So you say that AI could lead to cognitive decline or decay. What's happening there? How do we know if that's happening to us?

A I think this is the greatest risk with AI that is not being talked about. Is unfortunately a lot of people are lazy and they're not realizing it, but your brain, your ability to think is a muscle. If you stop using it, it's going to get weaker and weaker over time. Most people are using AI in a way that it is replacing their ability to think. Anytime you ask AI a question, get an answer and you just accept it. You made AI do the thinking leverage, not you. You can absolutely flip that, though, in a way that this requires more thinking on your end, and this is where Crit has been really good, because when you describe the context, you have to think, like, what's all the stuff that I need to tell, and you're recalling all these different things. Your brain is working more. When you describe the role, you're getting really creative about the kind of experts that your brain is working more. When the AI turns the table, And starts to interview you. It asks questions that you would never ask yourself. Your cognitive demand goes through the roof. And with all of that, it then accomplishes the task, which you then still apply judgment and discernment. And then you're thinking more about what do I like? What do I not like? What are the top changes? So if you actually look at when you write crit, how much more you use your brain, it goes through the roof. In that case, I, it is enhancing…

AI assessment note: “Most people are using AI in a way that it is replacing their ability to think.”

Q What jobs or skills would you absolutely never let them do because of AI?

A I, I am very skeptical. I'm not saying you don't do this. I'm very skeptical of the number of people going into law. Um, mostly because most of them go to law school because they lack direction, not because it's what they actually want to do. Um, I think that industry will absolutely remain. The skills are going to be fundamentally different. Um, I don't have a strong opinion on that. Where my opinion is, is if you are going into applying for a job where they're, they still operate in a traditional hierarchy where you report to a boss, you show up to work, take direction from a boss, and do something repetitively, I would not work for that company. And here's why. That's how we had to work in the industrial revolution. In an AI driven world, AI driven organizations are for far more like networks and swarms rather than this hierarchy of top down. It's far more can leadership cast the vision for where we're going and the strategy and clearly communicate it. And this is about a company that's going to say, Cody, what are your God given superpowers? What is it that makes Cody Sanchez, Cody Sanchez? And this is not a long list. This is probably three things that truly make you, you, and how do we actually get clear on what is it that makes you, you, and how do we harness those strengths and then focus you on here's the 20% things of this role that these two things got to match up wi…

AI assessment note: “I don't have a strong opinion on that. Where my opinion is, is”

Q What about people who say that AI is bad, and it's kills creativity, and it's bad for the environment, and why are you guys even talking about this?

A Um, creativity is a big one that I hear often. I would ask them, might it be, would you change your stance if you found that this could help you become more creative? It can't say no to that. And then we do something together. I mean, this is such a creative enhancement. I was with this last week. One of the biggest brands in the world. I'm in the, I'm in the boardroom with the C-suite. They gave us the biggest problem that they are facing. I mean, you're talking billions of dollars at stake. We wrote a crit on how to solve it. Totally came up with viable solutions. That alone was worth billions of dollars for them. That was a 20 minute use case, but it requires massive Change. Massive mindset shift. And I said, I had a, I flip it, and I said, great, now I want you to be Steve Jobs. Imagine you got to come back and deliver not a message, but a manifesto that I could deliver as the CEO of this company to our workforce that would ally all fear, all anxiety, and would galvanize people to run through walls with excitement And this thing would be so damn good, it would put the release of the iPhone to shape. And it lays out this manifesto that could be delivered in a minute. The CMO of the company goes, can we put that on letterhead? I mean, that is, the creativity is not your ability to create the draft. Your creativity is the ability to cast the vision for where you want to go, to…

AI assessment note: “creativity is a big one that I hear often. I would ask them”