You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ~ Jim Rohn
Surrounding yourself with the right people, and joining peer groups like Strategic Coach, Genius Network, Vistage, or the Entrepreneurs' Organization is vital to your growth. They bring together brilliant minds and industry transformers together in forums focused on innovation, creative disruption, and possibility.
Peer groups help you set (and raise) standards. They help bring new capabilities, but also new possibilities, new found energies and a reconnection to your purpose, mission, and values.
If you're not ready for that commitment, listening to podcasts from those people that have done what you want to do and gone where you want to go is a great step towards reaching those same goals.
In that vein, I recently went to Alaska with some friends. While there, I got to be on Entrepreneur Weekly with some of my close friends from Genius Network.
The following podcast features me and these guys:
- Nick Nanton of DNA Films - an Emmy award-winning director and powerful storyteller
- Mike Koenigs of You Everywhere Now - a serial entrepreneur and 13-time #1 bestselling author
- and Randy Garn, CMO of Skipio
The entire episode is less than 39 minutes. My piece starts around the 11:30 mark and goes for about 5 minutes. I open with a pretty big claim ... Check it out!
Pursue Passionately
If you understand what you really want and if you focus on that, rather than what you don’t want or all the things that are wrong; as long as you’re moving in that direction, and you don’t give up, the result is inevitable. ~ Howard Getson
When I was a kid, I couldn't imagine being where I am today ... nor could I imagine the path that took me here.
Looking back, it all makes sense. I didn't always know where I was going ... but I was passionate about business, and I was driven towards a greater purpose. From selling painted sand terrariums at the farmer's market to building an artificial intelligence powered hedge fund there's a common thread and a driving force.
Don't be afraid to take the risks that may injure your present to make way for your future.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The advent of AI is going to be as dramatic for society as the invention of electricity. ~ Howard Getson
Artificial intelligence will solve problems and create opportunities on a scope and scale that is beyond our current comprehension.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to build this company and capitalize on this opportunity. Realize, however, that I had to recognize the vision before there was an opportunity to capture.
Life is about making your future bigger than your past. There are plenty of opportunities out there if you know what you want.
Let me know what you are passionate about. I'd love to help.
Understanding the Scope and Scale of Humanity (and Our Impact)
"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity." ~ Marcus Garvey
Human expansion and development is without precedent. We're in an entirely new territory. People could "only imagine" many of the things we take for granted today.
To put it in perspective.
While growth is slowing down, and we're reaching carrying capacity, the population is still on the rise.
Technology is Growing Exponentially
The only thing that's perhaps more impressive than our population growth is our technological growth. For the first ~ 64,000 years of humanity, we relied upon the verbal transfer of information. The creation of writing and the formal recording of knowledge was the tinder for a blaze of progress.
The above graph stops in 1990, and it's almost hard to quantify the growth since then. Nonetheless, Moore's Law does a good job of adding some context (even if it is coming to an end).
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. Extrapolated outwards, we can expect more technologies to evolve every two years, if not faster.
Information is the fuel for so much of human progress and it most embodies the future to me. We create more data today than in all of history and digest more data today than ever before.
As our ability to parse information increases ... so do our capabilities.
History is defined by asymmetric information, but our future may not be. The growth in information creation and digestion - I believe - will have massive effects on how we congregate, what we create, and how we interact with each other and the corporate world around us.
I can't begin to imagine what my children's children will have at their disposal.
What's the coolest future-tech you expect to see in your lifetime?
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