Workpost 52: Exhausted

Today I am feeling unsure about my path moving forward. I don’t know what the future holds for me, my career, or relationship.

I want to execute on my plans but I am falling behind. I feel like it takes so much time to make content even if I move at lighting speed, but I will try nonetheless.

It is really helpful to think about vulnerability as emotional work. Sometimes, I feel like I’m being vulnerable just to be vulnerable and that doesn’t feel good or productive.

Ok so lets first look at AI consulting.

My deadline for step 1 is 27th of February. That is one week from now.

My progress so far:

1. Generated 56 video ideas
2. Generated 35 prompt ideas
3. Generated 14 post ideas

Out of the 91 prompt and video ideas, I narrowed down to 18 and asked people to vote on them. Here are the final results.

1. What kinds of people have job security in the age of AI? – 1
2. How to build an AI model with zero dollars – 2
3. Will AI ever be conscious? – 1
4. Can AI feel emotions? – 2
5. Did chatgpt pass the turing test?
6. Can AI be creative? – 1
7. Can AI be used to create a cure? – 4
8. What skills are still needed in the age of AI? – 2
9. What should you learn when AI knows everything? – 1
10. How to transition to an AI related career? – 1
11. How to use AI for better business decisions? – 2
12. How can AI be used to develop innovative products? – 3
13. GPT Prompt: Imagine a future where a specific societal problem has been solved.
14. GPT Prompt: Write a rap verse about your favorite food.
15. GPT Prompt: Take a boardgame and invent new rules
16. GPT Prompt: Take everything in your fridge and ask for recipes – 2
17. GPT Prompt: Play a game with the language model, such as Mad Libs or Would you Rather?
18. GPT Prompt: Ask AI to explain a really difficult concept to you on a 2nd grade level – 3

My goal is the same – make a name for myself so that when I reach out to people…they will recommend people to me.

It is actually sorta interesting how this worked out because in the process of polling people on the video ideas automatically helped me network. I’m discovering a whole new way to network! The step sorta go like this:

1. Reach out and mention something about what they did recently
2. If they respond, chat with them for a bit
3. When you need feedback on an idea, any recommendations for people, reach out to the people you resonate with…or even people who never responded!

I’m a little stumped on where I need to go next.

I want to follow the Mr. Beast formula of spending a lot of time on the title of my videos and the first few seconds. But does that mean I wait until all the results come in?

My feeling is that no, that isn’t the case. If I want to make a name for myself in 7 days, I need to start working on videos. Perhaps, my first step is to start breaking down a video and doing some research on here so I can be better informed on which videos would produce the best results.

My questions:

1. How to find a good business partner?
2. How to live an entrepreneur/unemployed life?
3. How to approach taxes as an entrepreneur?
4. How to approach risk?
5. How to build a support system?
6. How to handle rejection?
7. How to approach financial risk in a smart way?
8. How to rebuild from nothing?
9. How to deal with people looking down on you?
10. How to get hired/search for a job?
11. How to turn off work?
12. How to minimize work effort/stress/inefficiency?
13. How to process awkwardness?
14. What are different selling methods?
15. How to sell in a way that I feel myself?
16. How to gain from/work with/ benefit from the American system?
17. How can I be more resilient?

My intuitive answers to the questions:

How to find a good business partner?

• Write down what the ideal business is like
• Imagine all your favorite parts
• Imagine all the parts you need help with
• Write down your values
• Think about where a person like this (values + good in the areas you are weak + interest in your business area) would like to do/hangs out
• Ask close friends if they know someone like this

How to live an entrepreneur/unemployed life?

• They are different questions
• For the entrepreneur
  • Without a company, you need to build a company around you
  • Need to hire help/services to help automate different parts of life
• For the unemployed
  • Now is the time to look for help
  • Look into government assistance, help from family and friends
• To decide which one you are:
  • Unemployed when you no longer have ability to make money
  • If you have savings + some cashflow you are an entrepreneur
  • If you have no savings and negative cashflow, you are unemployed
  • You can be an entrepreneur and still work a job to increase your cashflow

How to approach taxes as an entrepreneur?

• Find a CPA that has experience working with entrepreneurs

How to approach risk?

• Risk is actually really simple
• Risk value = probability of success x value of success
• The higher the risk value, the more worth the risk, compare that with the resources the risk requires 

How to build a support system?

• The easiest way are people who want to live in a similar world as you do
• People who’s goals align with yours
• The easiest way to ascertain this is just to ask people
• You can also try to go to places that are included in your vision for what type of world you want to live in

How to handle rejection?

• Repair the ways in which you rejected yourself

How to approach financial risk in a smart way?

• Get good at estimating risk value and investment
• If the risk value is $100,000, and the investment is $90,000 then the risk is likely worth it
• If the risk value is $100,000 and the investment is $10,000 then the risk is definitely worth it

How to rebuild from nothing?

• Know your strengths
• Know what people want
• Sell yourself

How to deal with people looking down on you?

• Repair the ways other people have looked down on your in the past

How to get hired/search for a job?

• Think about the jobs that will be easiest for you to get
• Based on the interviews and discussions, adjust closer to what makes you happy

How to turn off work?

• Create a viable plan for when pending work will be addressed
• Write down the plan and execute when you are ready

How to minimize work effort/stress/inefficiency?

• Focus on creating clarity at all times on what is expected and when
• Set boundaries around respect and time
• Make sure that the goals are specific and small enough to complete one at a time

How to process awkwardness?

• Find reasons why awkwardness is a good thing

What are different selling methods?

• Relationships sales – they like you
• Technical sales – they like the technology
• Pressure sales – they don’t want to say no
• Trust sales – they trust you

How to sell in a way that I feel myself?

• Trust sales + technical sales sounds most like me

How to gain from/work with/ benefit from the American system?

• Sell to the rich
• Hire people who are good at what they do
• Outsource tedious stuff to other countries or AI

How can I be more resilient?

• Spend time getting up when you fall
• Specifically focus time and effort on healing from painful experiences

Today I came up with a new emotional processing tool, finding a way to personify the feelings within me and making friends with them.

The goal is to accept and validate feelings within instead of trying to push them down or quickly process them.

Here are some examples:

1. Valorant stress and anxiety (fear of being bad/defective, fear of failure) – a little black dragon called Neelu. The tension in my stomach and heart are the dragon’s body my frustration its fire.
2. The feeling of being overwhelmed by the thought of work – Pedro the Triangle, a pyramid floating in my chest with sharp edges
3. The desire/pull for attention or to be liked – Lethe the a sort of fast moving air or energy in my chest

These personification, I make friends with them, allow them to be with me while I go about my business.

I also wanted to talk about a really good video I watched.

Some lessons I learned:

1. Stay consistent
2. Figure out what you want to be the best at (good enough for others to want to pay you money)
3. Figure out what comes before the money in terms that is more grounded and more closer to your purpose

Taking the final advice, I wanted to think about it a little more.

I want to make $200,000.

My two goals are:

1. To help people turn their artistic gifts into masterpieces
   • Works of art that are honest, emotional, grounded, playful, imaginative, personal, and beautiful
2. To make companies 10x more valuable
   • More purposeful, unique, efficient, intentional, innovative processes, brands, culture, products and leaders (consistent and aligned)

The question I want to ask myself is: how would I need to go about my goals in such a way that it would be strange if I didn’t make $200,000?