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Jonathan Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
606 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

You can delegate to your friends, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

If you don't have a single dollar to spend on an assistant...

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

you can get a group of four friends together and say hey let's all babysit each each other's kids one one night a week or you just got a free babysitter for those other three nights uh so there's a way it's such a clever idea ways to get leverage for all of us and you know my recommendation to people is you start small with whatever resources you have and you learn to delegate to an ai assistant people talk about prompt engineering that's just delegation

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And as you get really good at that and you have the resources, then you can upgrade to an assistant with a company like ours or an in-person assistant, which is even more expensive, or, yeah, a fleet of assistants that runs your whole life.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I've worked with billionaires who have teams of 50.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

It's totally mind-blowing, and that's out of reach for almost all of us.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

But I think everyone can take the first couple steps and you go as far as you want or you're able.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Yeah, so level zero is you delegate to friends and family.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

It costs you nothing.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And this is group work.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So you get together, you do the babysitting, you get together and you say, hey, I want to meet more friends in dinner parties.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I'll plan one.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

dinner party once a quarter.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

If these other friends, you also do it once a quarter.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And now you get a monthly dinner party, making new friends, and you're only doing a couple times a year.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So that's level zero.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And that's where everyone should start.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

The next level above that is 20 bucks a month, chat GPT.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

You know, they're trying to be a human assistant.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

It's limited in what it can do today, but you can use it like a coach, like a