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John Gafford

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15943 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Let me ask you this, because obviously we're in the world now, you talked a little bit about it earlier.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

One of the things that you said was when you're talking about we're emotional creatures that try to think intellectually.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And a guest I had on not too long ago is an incredible change agent for big corporations.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And with the advent of AI, we were talking about AI replacing jobs and doing these things.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And he said, well, the problem is

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

humans are emotional trying to get to intelligence and AI is intelligence trying to get to emotions.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

There's still this disconnect as to why companies that choose to have AI as their front facing customer experience are not doing very well with it right now.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

But in the age of AI as it's coming up, I know you talk a lot about this.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

How is that gonna become a measure of critical?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

How's that gonna change this stuff?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

Well, what's worse is in the age of social media, it is required that you have an opinion about everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

You know, I've often said on this ship program, one of the most valuable things that you can do is, is master the phrase.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

I don't have an opinion on that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

It's just,

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

There's a lot of – there's more power in that statement than saying something dumb that you're regurgitating that you heard online.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

But I think that's getting harder and harder because with the algorithms through social media and Twitter, they have one job, keep you on the platform.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

That's it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

So they've placed you in this echo chamber of just the same repetitive voice coming through you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

And you're

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Building a High-Performance Life - Paul Larache

most people don't take the time to say, hey, what does the other side maybe of this coin look like?