Ep. 25 – Adaptation
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Ep. 25 – Adaptation
Change requires us to be wrong. Adaptors are more successful in life and business. Knowing the wrong answer is worth just as much as the right answer.
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Change requires us to be wrong. Adaptors are more successful in life and business. Knowing the wrong answer […]
July 8, 2023
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Michael Abernathy 0:00
Hey what’s up, everybody? Welcome back to THE a.m. Welcome back to 5 Minute Rants, I’m your host, Michael Abernathy. I hope you’re all having a great day. and hope life is treating y’all well.
So let’s Just jump straight into this. So last episode, I talked about creation and AI, where the work is going, from really the technical work, the actual execution of like the writing, if we’re thinking about chat, GPT, that technical execution is going away in the work is becoming more based around ideation, more based around creation, and more based around oversight.
And one of the things that I think is very important, is adaptability. A lot of us do not like change, change can be hard, change can be uncomfortable. And for those reasons, based on the uncomfortability, around change, and there’s uncomfortability, based on several points. One is being wrong, or one is I “don’t want to give up something I like” to move forward. and so that uncomfortability, based around those two, you know, those two aspects of our lives, normally put a bad taste in our mouth for change. And so as people, we tend to avoid change, we really do. If you look at what happened with social and adaptation of brands to really utilize social, it was over a long period of time for that change to really occur, and it’s still not fully implemented. Right? It’s still not fully implemented in that change, it’s going to be the same thing with AI, it’s going to be the same thing. With smartphones, it was a long time for that adaptation and change to occur with a technology.
I’m saying this because I believe that if you really have an adaptive mindset, and if you really have an adaptive heart posture, because both those things are acquired, you as a person will win better, will win easier, will be able to move forward quicker and faster, because you’re willing to adapt. Now that does mean that you’re going to have failure in your life more often, experience it and you’re going to have to look at it, and you’re going to have to grow from it. Because adaptation does not mean 100% success rate. Adaptation means I’m willing to change and move forward, and then grow in the areas where I’ve experienced failure.
And especially because of the way that we’re raised, especially in the US with the school system and society, we don’t change well, we want to know all the boundaries, we want to know all the rules, we all want to know all the do nots, and the dues. Then we want to act accordingly that way, and as a result, because of that, it really continues to submit that mindset in us to stay centralized and to stay immobile to where we don’t adapt and change.
If you watch over the next, the next six months to a year, two or three years, with all the changes in technology with AI, you are going to watch a major shift and you will actually be able to see the brands and the companies, the freelancers and all the teams working small businesses to large who are going to adapt and change. And those early adaptors are going to win more because they will find out where they fail. Now there’s a difference between going first principle like going first to take market share versus adaptation and growing and learning. We’re not talking about those and I think that’s important not to confuse. But if we stop and look at the adaptation side, you’re going to be able to watch and measure.
Now here’s the cool thing about adaptation. I actually think when you adapt and change, that’s when most of the growth personally comes. That’s when most of the growth as a company comes. and adapting and changing in that way, opens doors, one for new insights, new knowledge, new skill sets, new experiences, right? And then two you also work on that Harvard degree of stupidity. Like I’ve got to learn all the things not to do, and learning what not to do is just as important as learning what to do. Right? Learning not to cross that double yellow line while driving down the road, at least in the US, is so important to know not to do. I don’t need to do it, experience it, and then experience all the pain afterwards to learn from it. I Just simply need to know that that’s a wrong answer. And when you adapt, you learn those answers. You also learn the way forward. You’re also able to take that and apply those principles to other areas in your life.
Because here’s the key. Here’s a key for how life works. Principles that you learned are universal, and they normally apply everywhere else not always. But there’s a good chance that principles you learn through adapting and changing and failing and moving forward and growing that way. Those principles are going be able to be applied elsewhere.
So anyways guys, I’m out of time and I’ll catch y’all later. Peace