Gen Z: Rapid Experimentation and Critical Thinking Practice

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Personal leadership with AI means using it as a tailored amplifier, not an overlord. Meg and Mark unpack generational strengths in AI use, from structured Gen X prompts to Gen Z experimentation. They show how to turn books into personalised action plans with AI, build health and financial literacy, and create safe spaces for younger people to sharpen critical thinking. Listeners leave with ways to pair their strengths with AI, design better prompts, and lead on their own terms.

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🎙️What you’ll learn

• How to use AI with leadership and habits books to create personalised questions, habits, and behaviour changes that fit your life.
• How to combine Kindle and Audible to read faster while staying focused on complex ideas.
• How Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z professionals tend to approach AI differently, and how to borrow strengths from each style.
• How to design prompt pipelines that move from exploration to refinement to final outputs you can put to work.

✅Highlights

• "The world is ending, AI is bad, the planet's burning, like up here and into the like, okay, actually, so what"
• "artificial intelligence will be just another helpful feature on the tech infrastructure that... serve our daily lives"
• "If we're not personally leading in our own lives with artificial intelligence, we are just going to be buffeted and swayed by other people's ideas."

🧰Mentioned

• Neil deGrasse Tyson https://amzn.to/485h2ot
• Seven habits of highly effective people https://amzn.to/49SK2lN
• The four hour work week https://amzn.to/49nMzEp
• Nix https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7z5lDsS6UP/?igsh=MXBzMXk4MDhlYjN6bQ%3D%3D AND https://www.tiktok.com/@cwknix
• Chris Huntingford https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishuntingford/

✅Connect with the hosts

Mark Smith:  
Blog https://www.nz365guy.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy

Meg Smith:  
Blog https://www.megsmith.nz
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/megsmithnz

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✅Keywords: personal leadership, ai, gen x, gen z, millennials, prompting, prompt pipelines, financial literacy, health literacy, ai literacy, vibe coding, strengthsfinder

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