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John Gafford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
14956 total appearances

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

I'm like, did you drive here in a 4,000 pound death machine that was going 65 miles an hour, probably five feet away from a bunch of other 5,000 pound death machines coming the other way.

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

And all it would have taken in one moment is one person to swerve over and you'd have been dead.

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

but your brain has just pattern recognized.

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

I said, listen, that's okay.

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

That's not going to happen.

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

And that's what your brain does.

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

The old brain, I guess, does is it recognizes those things because otherwise we would just walk around all day like, ah, ah, waiting for a rock to fall on us all the time.

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

So we start to see those things.

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

Well, the first thing that comes to mind with me is Pepsi.

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

Every 10 years, they have to redesign their logo and redesign everything.

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

And God knows how much they pay those firms to do it.

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

I saw a thing one time where it was like they pay millions of dollars for these marketing firms to do these rebrands.

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

Yeah, no, it does.

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.