Ep098:The Intersection of Da Vinci's Genius and the Digital Age

In today’s episode of Welcome to Cloundlandia, we discuss the intersection points of Da Vinci's genius and the current digital age as we explore the origins of technology and its impact on society.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

• Have you heard of psychological geometry? It's a way to understand the rules that govern our psychological world, like everything is made up, no one is in charge, and life isn't always fair.


• By understanding these rules, we can stay calm and cool and seize opportunities to lead in our niche or community. It's all about finding ways to thrive amid chaos.


• Richard Rossi's Da Vinci Experience sounds pretty cool - it featured presentations by Dave Asprey and a pediatrician expert in age reversal through supplements. Talk about a unique event.


• The Kaufman Protocol is all about age reversal, and Richard creates action plans for attendees of the Da Vinci Experience. It's all about finding ways to live our best lives, regardless of age.


• Ed Shulack is an architect turned CEO who built a network of companies inspired by Leonardo DaVinci's genius and ability to cross borders. It just goes to show that inspiration can come from anywhere.


• Technology has been shaping the world for centuries, from the invention of fire to the latest advances in AI and machine learning. It's amazing to think about how far we've come!


• From the microchip to the iPhone, technological advances from 1950 to 1985 have profoundly impacted society. It's fascinating to think about how much has changed in just a few decades.


• There's a lot of debate about where technology will take us in the future - will it lead to a utopian singularity or something else entirely? Only time will tell.


• Dan has some exciting plans, including setting up a genius profile and exploring training technology like a good dog. It's always great to have new goals to work towards.


• Embracing technology and AI as teammates can be a game-changer for productivity, creativity, and success - whether you're an individual or a business. It's all about finding ways to work smarter, not harder.

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TRANSCRIPT

Dean Jackson
Mr Sullivan.

Dan Sullivan
Five Star General Jackson, oh my goodness, here we are.

Dan Sullivan
Every week that goes by that I don't talk to you, I add another star.

Dean Jackson
Okay, the Five Star General, I like it. Well, how was your adventures? You've been everywhere, haven't you? You went to Phoenix, you went to Austin, you've been, yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Well, we were in Sedona the week after, joe. And you know it's a beautiful, beautiful place. And then we were in Austin and we had a chance to go visit Tucker Max, who you know he sold Scribe probably a year and a half ago, and then he bought himself a 50, 58 acre ranch, and so, and he's a rancher, he's a rancher, and he looks like a rancher. He's the home parent, and Veronica is expanding his national network of nurse practitioners all across the United States because it's a big item. They got him right now.

And then we went to Richard Rossi's Da Vinci 50. Which was terrific. I mean, it was really, really terrific. Dave Asprey was there And had a good catch up with Dave, Yeah, and then came back here and you know, and I had a busy week. We had a holiday Monday because it was Victoria. Day here and here in the colonial realm of Canada. The Canadian colony.

And anyway, and so then back to work and it felt good. It felt good I had two free zones, connectors and I had a 10 times connector and we started book 35. The next book just coming back from the printer this week is I think I've talked to you about the geometry for staying calm and cool, geometry and quotation marks, because this isn't about spatial geometry, this is about psychological psychological geometry Right Yeah, psychological geometry.

Dean Jackson
There's three rules.

Dan Sullivan
Three rules controls psychological world. Everything's made up. That's the rule number one. Always has been is now well in the future. Number two is no base in charge. Okay. And number three life's not fair, Life's not fair. So the three. you put those three together and you get suddenly calm and cool And you begin to realize that everything's made up, so you can make up new things. Nobody's in charge.

So there's nobody's permission to ask whether you can make up new things, and anything you make up is going to be advantageous to somebody and unfair to someone else. So just forget about that and just make up new things that other people find useful, and you're clear and free.

Dean Jackson
This is the best. What do?

Dean Jackson
We've talked about those things, those concepts, and I just can't. I have to wrap people's. One of the great things that I always get people to think about is that self-appointment. You're getting people to appoint themselves to the position and you take something. I think if you're taking a, you're organizing a group of people. If you're aiming to be a hero to somebody, you've got a group of people that you're aiming to be a hero to, which is one of your great thoughts that I love.

And I had a guy I did a breakthrough blueprint this week in Orlando And I had a gentleman who he he was very popular in a niche of electronic controls for, like, semen and honey well, and these things that control all these air qualities and systems for enterprise level things, big office buildings and hotels and all that stuff. So it's kind of a small audience but he's kind of like the most known guy in the field. He's the only one that's kind of organizing the community. And I said you know this will go all the way and just like, appoint yourself to be the mayor of control town and start acting like it.

There's nobody appointing anybody to the position of doing anything good, especially when you're like connecting people. You're connecting people in a good way. Everybody's very myopic, everybody's very only focused on what's in it for me, on their own sort of thing, and as soon as you start thinking about what can you do to help them or achieve what they're looking for, the whole world changes. Nobody, that's one of those. Life's not fair. It's not fair that well, wait a minute, you're not, you're just helping them get there.

That's not fair, you can't do that for free.

Dan Sullivan
There's a certain thing that's not fair Yeah, I had somebody on one of the connector calls last week say you know, I'm not perfect at what I'm doing, and I said, oh, you are. I said why don't you just solve that perfection problem? Just declare yourself perfect and now improve it?

Dean Jackson
There you go perfect.

Dan Sullivan
That's so funny, yeah, perfect.

Dean Jackson
I liked the book title that you came up with for a future potential book from Genius Network. We were talking about AI and I believe the title you came up with was why AI doesn't matter, or something like that?

Dan Sullivan
No, I've actually nailed that It's not. AI I've actually I made it broader, i just made it technology period because AI. Oh okay, yeah, ai is just the 25th thing over the last 50 years, that's going to change? Yeah, this is it. Now everything changes and I said well, this is number 25, and there went the. AI. We didn't have the first 24. I mean, there is a genetic heritage here. Yeah, this goes way back, Anyway, by just technology.

and so I came up in the only talk I ever gave Peter Diamonis's story about AI in 1960, was he. I mentioned that we already knew how to deal with technology a long time ago, because docs were actually our first technology. Way, way, way back. People mastered fire and then they figured out you should be near a river and they took. But the docs and this is before agriculture Dogs were domesticated before agriculture and dogs is actually a creation. There were no dogs, There were smart wolves and there were smart humans and they did a free zone collaboration and we came up with this thing.

We came up with, this thing called dog, and that's anywhere between 30,000 to 40,000, they're not, because it seems to have happened independently. One of them happened in Europe and they know, another one happened in Southeast Asia And they're genetically different. so they know that the it was a different source, the wolf, different wolf genes in the two dogs, but anyway. so anyway, i just titled the book Training Technology Like a Good Dog.

Dean Jackson
Oh, that's so good, there you go. So technology doesn't matter.

Training well, no, you have to be the alpha and you have to be the alpha.

Dan Sullivan
In both cases You don't get a good dog, unless you're the alpha, because the dog wants you to be the alpha. The dog Needs you to be the alpha because they're pack animals and they got to know what their, their rank and role is, you know?

yeah and and technology. You have to establish that you're the alpha here and technology has to prove it's Worth. It has to prove its usefulness and and You know, and so. But, for example, you know just one. I know we're going to get into the AI Conversation here, but we just hired Evan Ryan to train our whole team. He's got a succession zoom Program that's called AI as your teammate. Okay, so Mm-hmm, which I thought was terrific.

Yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, and so he's going to take everybody. But you just work on what you're already working at and he shows you that there's part of what you're working at that AI can be the teammate, Okay and yeah. So it's two hour sessions and we have six of them. And then you know and people don't have to do it, but they have to understand the consequences of that you know, and You know AI is not going to replace you. Somebody else who knows AI is going to replace you.

That's exactly right, yeah, yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, so, so. Anyway, that's my report general. That's fun.

Dean Jackson
I've had. So I had a couple of mainland meet-ups since we've been on on Hey the I had. Lear Weinstein was down in Orlando a couple weeks ago Oh okay, and so we got. We had brunch at the four seasons for about five hours, just, you know, meeting up and talking about all kinds.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, I think he's.

Dan Sullivan
He's. That's not far away. I think he's in Atlanta mostly.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, he's yeah, so they've been. They were down at Disney At the four seasons, here at Disney World. So I made my way from the four seasons Valhalla over to the four seasons Orlando And we had a wonderful. We had a wonderful brunch. I got to meet his wife I don't know if you've met.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, I met her. I met her at. She was at the. Annual genius genius network last year, so I met.

Oh, okay.

Dan Sullivan
It was either last year or the year before. I am not quite sure. I think it might have been the year before and Yeah and but Lee are super sorry, he's, he's a he's also a wonderful human being. Yes, really.

Dean Jackson
So that was like good, i've you know, we've known each other, we've had some connection on online, so this was first one I've ever really spent any meaning and I think he's starting a mastermind.

Dan Sullivan
I think he's starting a mastermind group.

Hey, I mastermind group Yeah. Yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, and then I Told Lee are yeah, you're bit. Number one obstacles in light is that you're good at everything you Put your mind to. Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, I said I don't have. I was saved that problem at birth.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, we had a good. We had a good talk about that exactly we did. He went through. We share the same profile in the Working genius. I don't know whether you've gone through that one. I think I've mentioned it to you. James Drage turned me on to it and I find it very Use this is a program.

Dan Sullivan
There's a program or a profile.

Dean Jackson
It's a profile similar to Colby, like that.

Dan Sullivan
Oh yeah but it doesn't. So you answer a whole bunch of. You answer a whole bunch of questions, right?

Dean Jackson
You answer questions just like Colby. It really takes 10 minutes to fit.

Dan Sullivan
I'll do it. I'll. I really I'd love to see what you know I will do? I will do this and I will record the results. Okay, perfect. Yeah, it's working. Geniuscom or something like that.

Dean Jackson
That's it. Yeah, i think that's where it is, but essentially it's. It's what your, what you're working genius is basically like what You, you play and it spells out. There's six elements that spell out the word widget, and each of them is a different genius. So W is wonder, and that means that you have a Genius for looking at something, seeing all the ways that it could be improved. Right then I is invention, where you have a genius for Making stuff up to, to create you solution to things.

Dan Sullivan
Every everything's made up and including a new program called working genius. That just got made up right.

Dean Jackson
And then D is discernment, which meaning you have the genius of knowing what's the right thing to do in this situation. And G is Galvanizing me, gathering all the people and the resources that you need to be able to do something. E is Enablement, and that's about supporting the You know, the team or the property, or making sure everybody has what they need to be performing and doing their portion of the project. And then T is tenacity, and tenacity is Be like the equivalent, probably a follow through, the ability to Cross all the T's and dot all the eyes and drive something to completion, and Dd all of it in order to get any Project done. But two of them are your genius that you like thrive in those two, and two of them are Your worst, your kryptonite kind of thing. So for me, i am your.

Just wow your wi I'm discernment, discernment any mention, or my top two, and double you as a third. Yeah. So that's funny, but that's it's like it makes sense that that's the, you know and it fits, before it really does fit, because when you take it I think you'll find it very interesting.

Dan Sullivan
Well, you know it's kind of funny. I was just looking at dividing widget into two parts W-I-D and T-E-T.

And who not? how That's?

Dean Jackson
exactly right.

It's weird.

Dan Sullivan
I'm with it, but somebody's got to get it.

I'm with it, but somebody's got to get it. Oh, that's funny.

Dan Sullivan
Here, boy, that's exactly what it is. Here's a new one boy Here, That is so funny. I'm going to be all over that. I'll have that done by the end of the day. I'll tell you.

Okay, perfect. I'm flying to London tonight.

Dean Jackson
I was just going to say. I hear you're flying to London. I fond memories of London.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, but Babs is down with some sort of you know coughing thing today. So she just decided to stay home and get mended, and we've gotten a lot of useful suggestions from David Hasse, who's our number one medical number one medical. He's got to get some help actually help And so she's going to explore these these weeks, but she doesn't want the travel. really, you don't want to get something that tires you out.

Speaker 1
Right.

Dan Sullivan
You know when you're you got to stay put and let your body do the healing, and so she just. so, instead of it being 10 days, i'm just going to go tonight and I'll be back on Friday And I don't have I don't market in live sessions anymore. That's all done on.

that's all done on Zoom which is just such a great thing, And and so I, thursday in London we have the we're at the Berkeley Berkeley hotel which is out there, and you know, in May, pier Kensington, that area yeah, in that in that area.

So, I have all the non 10 times in free zone in the morning and the 10 times in free zone people can be there, But in the afternoon I just have. UK, not UK clients, but people who would go to London for their, you know, for workshops, workshops right, yeah. And they're either on the virtual 10 times or they're going to London or and a lot of them come to the United.

They come to Canada and the United States and the free zone, of course they come to, that's Gary and, and Guy and Gary are the first to the and Peter Buckle. Peter Buckle is a free zone. And then we had Helen, who is from Newcastle, but her both her parents died and she's at all landed on her.

Dean Jackson
So taking a year up.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, so anyway, we're yeah. So anyway it'll be a quick trip and then I get back, and you know we've only gotten back until the following Tuesday, so picked up some days, you know.

Mm, hmm.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, well, that's the dressing. So what was the highlights of your Da Vinci experience?

Dan Sullivan
Rich, I tell you, Richard has created a gem. I actually created a gem, And so this is my second one, and it's essentially two and a half days. You start on Wednesday at lunch and then you go and, and so we had three or four really, really great presentations, including Dave Asprey, the marvelous presentation But one of them was this woman. She's great around you, She's I think she's in you know, she might be in Boca Raton or something like that and she's really the the leading expert on using supplements to reverse your age.

These are supplements and she's got a thing called the Kaufman protocol. That's the name of the book. I think that's the name of her book, but I think she was a pediatrician. She just got fascinated in this age reversal thing and she's a terrific presenter. And what the neat thing about Richard is that she was there on the Wednesday afternoon, she spoke again on the Thursday and she spoke again on Friday.

So he can take a present.

Dan Sullivan
So, and what? the last one is action to take. You know action to take, So he sets it up, So it's free, but you get an overview and then you talk about where the breakthroughs are, and then you have an action plan. So he's, it's beautifully curated. I mean, Richard, Richard, superb at this and he's, he's he's the most laid back.

You know, friend of the front of the room I mean he's and he's got that, you know, devilish sense of humor, and I mean he's got very, you know, he's sort of pick, he's self self humorous, he tells jokes about himself And and so. And then we had an amazing person and this one wasn't recorded because there was a lot of inside organizational knowledge on it, and but it's a guy named Ed Shulack and he's a marvelous person And he was an architect and then he got an idea and this is just kind of shows you where his mind was. He was an architect and, you know, successful, but then he I think Trump was the big thing, but Trump started, and I think it started before Trump, but Trump really went gun hoe with it. No, no, it was way before Trump, because he started this in the 80s, you know 70s and 80s And what it was is the United States established a thing called tax free trade zones.

Okay, and there's I think there's about 20, 25 of them in the US now, here in 2023. And what it is? they're a tax free trade zone, so it's places where companies from outside of the United States could come and present their you know their goods here And they have factories there, so they can.

You know, business can. Things can actually be created in business. But what Ed got the notion of? in the last 70s is that virtually all the airports, the major take. Orlando, for example, take. Miami for example, that almost all the big airlines airports in the US airfields were had a lot of farmland around them still. And so he went up, bought up, he bought up all the farmland, Okay around any broad.

Okay, oh yeah, and so he, and so he essentially owned the land that the trade zones were on, and, and essentially, and then when he was 55, he sold out for a humongous amount. And then he, he lives in Detroit and terrific, just, and very, very quiet, very, very quiet, very like isn't it wonderful that I get to do this, but what?

he did is that he was starting to get into the Regenerative Medicine. You know that was starting to develop and he met Peter Diamandis and he said you know, i'm just going to see who the dozens and top people are in this field. I'm going to have an invitation. I'm really good at organization or anything. So I'll give you three, three months of my time if you'll just inform me of everything that you're doing. Okay. And and he did. You know with what's his name? the guy who did the first gene map, craig.

Venture.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, craig Venture, he was the first one Yeah. So, anyway, he's got great CEO capabilities. This Ed Sheeran like does. So what he did was he started seeing where all the startups were along this way and he'd fund startups, and then he would buy startups and put together funds that bought him up, and then he started creating these networks And his inspiration was Leonardo DaVinci, because Leonardo crossed over borders.

Speaker 1
It was a big thing, you know he did.

Dan Sullivan
You know, in the morning he'd paint the you know the Mona Lisa. In the afternoon he'd create a new weapons system, and then in the evening he'd create a new architectural widget, and then, you know, and then the next day he'd do other things. You know, he'd take a body apart and everything and do the drawings totally illegally and and everything else, and then he'd trade something else. And he said all real breakthroughs are where you're crossing a border from one world to the other. It's almost like crossing from the mainland to Quadland, you know as a crossover. Yeah, and now he's got this. He's got four groups of companies. You know, he's probably combined about 23 companies, but he's organized them and all integrated A lot of them in the Boston area.

And we met him two years ago, we were on Peter Diamandis's longevity trip in Boston, and then he got up but he only got, like, you know, a lot, a lot. You know, you only got about 40, 40 minutes or so, but here he had like two and a half hours and then he stayed and you know, and by asking him a question right at the end, which fascinated him, i said Ed, we know what you've done since 55, but what were the five capabilities, the stack of capabilities that you put together before 55 that make you probably the only person in the world who can do what you're doing.

And he found that fast. He found that and he named three of them. You know, like when he was a teenager, when he was in his twenties, when he was in his thirties, but there wasn't time to get the other two out. So at dinner that night he said I like to explore with you You're thinking on this because I hadn't thought about the connections between these things as it relates to me now.

And he says my mind is kind of going a little bit crazy with this, so can you give me a call and we'll finish the other five and then tell me what I should do with that? So he gave me his card, so I'm going to give him a call.

Dean Jackson
Terrific guy, i mean just marvelous person That's so great, and how old is he now?

Dan Sullivan
I'm just trying to think right now. I think he's probably late, 60s, 60s, 67, 68. Yeah, yeah, i mean kind of guy. you know, he's the kind of guy that a 79 year old can help out, right, exactly.

Dean Jackson
You know these young people, they, you know yeah these young people, you know they're. Happy birthday, by the way, You were oh yeah celebrated your birthday while you were gone? Yeah, last Friday.

Dan Sullivan
It was the last day of the Da Vinci, that was my birthday and they gave me a wonderful treat. They gave me three sliders with birthday candles out of each of the sliders.

Dean Jackson
I saw that. I saw the video. Yeah, that's close.

Dan Sullivan
Plus, plus, you know a big dish of coleslaw. of course You have to have coleslaw if you're going to have sliders. And major food groups. You know you've got to have the major food groups there.

Dean Jackson
Well, you know, I told somebody posted it in the. You had a birthday earlier. That's exactly right. Yeah, so we're both. You caught back up again. You're 22 years ahead. Yeah, there's a couple weeks when you've.

Dan Sullivan
You chronologically kind of try to close the distance, but then about two weeks later, right, i return things back to normal.

Dean Jackson
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. I was realizing, talking with Luba, we were, i was explaining about the What's really been a profound thought for me. I've really been giving a lot of time in my journals and thinking about guessing and betting. That's been a big That's been a big thing like an eye-opener. It's such a simple thing but profound when you really think about what the implications are. And I haven't thought about it, we've been talking about it. But I was going back thinking 25 years. We were looking like 25 years ago 1997, i moved to Florida, so 26 years ago now We were thinking even about 25 years. And then your birthday. I was showing her the Blider post or whatever, and we realized the distance between 2000 and now. How fast that's gone, that distance forward now. And I'll be 82 years old, lord willing. That's the big thing, right? What an amazing.

Dan Sullivan
Actually Dean willing.

Speaker 1
Yes, exactly, that's exactly what.

Dan Sullivan
I'm talking about.

Dean Jackson
That's exactly what.

Dan Sullivan
I'm talking about Dean willing. These are two different roles. Dean and. God.

Speaker 1
That's exactly right.

Dean Jackson
That's right. We don't say Lord willing, and the Creek Stilts ride.

Speaker 1
That's the Dean willing.

Dean Jackson
You're absolutely right, but you think about that just amazingly, it's a different. Those middling 25 years from 30 to 55 is a different 25 years than 55 to 80.

Speaker 1
That's really good.

Dan Sullivan
I came up with another. it's sort of like it's a new relative of the lifetime extender. Okay, And it occurred to me because I'm almost 80, so I'll be 80 next year, but in the last nine years, since my 70th birthday, which there was a person who I won't say lie, but it was a subterfuge, there was no question, it was a subterfuge who invited me for dinner on my 70th birthday night. And I didn't realize I was going to have dinner with 300 people because you had a role in that subterfuge.

Dean Jackson
I did. I remember that night. That's so funny. It's so funny how you guys simplified things.

Dan Sullivan
I won't accuse you of lying, but it was diversionary. There was certainly diversionary.

Dean Jackson
And if you were award, academy Awards given for that act to get you up there?

Speaker 1
hey, gang you want to see the room where I do my birthday.

Dan Sullivan
We got to see the room where I see it.

Dean Jackson
Of course I do. yes, That was something so exciting to see as a look on your face.

Dan Sullivan
I was looking back to that night and I've been far more creative and productive since my 70th birthday than I was from 1 to 70. I'm just establishing that Now I've set the goal that when I'm 89, the creativity and productivity during my 80s will be greater than everything that happened before the 80s. It's a really nice structure because you're already at the top of your game for a lot of things and probably you just have to keep multiplying with your top of the game stuff.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, you look at your like it has been quite an amazing 10 years. You went literally from that was sort of on the cuff of you had just started the 10-time program, basically a few years into that. Then you created free zones in that period of time. Now you're exclusively free zones.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, i'm still doing the 10 times connectors, which is proven very valuable. I'm still doing that. I've committed for 24 because I've really enjoyed the ones. I gave everybody a commitment when I do it to the end of 23,. But I really want to do it because the fact that I'm coaching these little two hour sessions is pulling people from signature into 10 times and it's moving 10 timers into free zones.

I'm creating new tools too for the 10 times program. It's all good. It's so funny because my team was saying, well, there isn't time in your schedule. We've looked at the schedule for the rest of the year and I said, well, you know those dates aren't in cement.

I said these are suggestions of how I could spend my time. I said, but this is all in the I'm a 10 quick start. I said this is the most negotiable human being on the planet. Is a 10 quick start. Yeah, because something new is always more interesting than something that's already scheduled.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, amen, yeah Well, that's it.

Dan Sullivan
So I said I said don't look at the schedule and say Dan doesn't have any time. Come and talk to Dan about it and Dan will look at the schedule and say, well, we can move this to here, We move this, and we pre up three hours or four hours. We can always, you know, I mean anywhere where I've made a commitment, like it's a workshop commitment, that's fixed. Yeah.

And you know, or a 10 time connector call Yeah, Or where I'm attending to something and I, you know, I've given my commitment I'm going to do it. But if it's just internal, you know it's internal things, like you know, I said, that's come and talk to me about this. Yeah, i have a Lillian. Come and talk to the decider.

Dean Jackson
Right It was so funny. Lillian forwarded me her email with back and forth on getting up on the schedule because she had taken it off the calendar. Yeah, And then back then was explaining to Lillian how she had the conversation with you and you said where's my Dean Jackson podcast? She said, well, I think you're leaving and you're getting ready to go to London.

Dan Sullivan
And I said you know, i said you're thinking about how long it takes Babs to get ready for London.

Speaker 1
You're not thinking how long it takes me to get ready.

Dean Jackson
I said Babs, i'm ready right now.

Dan Sullivan
If we're leaving on Sunday night, Babs is starting on Saturday morning. There's no time for anything else. Okay, I said I got it down. 45 minutes before the limousine picks us up is when I start packing. I'm already in 45 minutes. You know, I've adapted a total Dean Jackson wardrobe. I said you know, i got three pairs of jeans. I got five long sleeve uniglo, you know, navy blue, black. You know, not black but navy blue.

I can't go to black, i can go to navy blue, and then I've got socks, and then I have workout clothes and you know my toilet kit and you know my meds. Yeah, I don't know what else I have. You know how long does that take to go, you know and. I now take everything that I could get by with for a whole week just in my carry on.

Dean Jackson
Yes, exactly.

Dan Sullivan
Because hotels have laundry hotels.

Speaker 1
Right And everything.

Dan Sullivan
Right.

Speaker 1
Yeah.

Dan Sullivan
And it's on the plane with me, because last year We arrived in London and 50 passengers didn't get their just didn't get their luck to get their luggage and I said that's never, and you know, and everybody's combating about air Canada. I says big systems are falling apart. As a matter of fact, one of my one of my next quarter, sometime in the not too distant future, i've got a book called big systems falling apart And you know, and I said you know, big systems are having a hard time.

Speaker 1
You know they're you know, first of all.

Dan Sullivan
A lot of their good people are retiring right now because they were boomers and the boomers are packing it in And that was the biggest work generation in the history of the United States And, yeah, yeah, by 2029 they will have all reached 65, and you know they're you know, and you know, and people say, yeah, but you know, they're old people. I said, yeah, they have systems. They have system, they have the institutional wisdom though they've been through.

Speaker 1
so many situations.

Dan Sullivan
They know how to improvise, they know how to adjust and everything else. I said people that they're replacing with people in their 20s and 30s and they're trying to deal with complexity out of a rulebook.

Speaker 1
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, that's the. What do you notice in?

Dan Sullivan
what do you notice, seeing about changes that are actually sticking, because a lot of it is just, you know, it's just ocean, storms and waves, it's not really a long term current. What do you mean on your friend? just noticing?

Dean Jackson
I mean, you know, i read, yeah, I read. You know, years ago I don't know how many years ago now, but there was a article in the New York Times about the tyranny of convenience And that was that was the thought that they had is that once we as a society experience a new convenience, it's ratcheted in, basically that we don't rarely, we rarely go backwards to hard. Once you've yeah, we're once you've experienced, you know, machine washing your clothes We don't go back to and washing You know it's like that The whole thing. And we've experienced, we've progressed forward Where, you know, you used to have to sit in front of the television at the right time to watch the gun smoke or whatever was on TV at that time. Then we got to the VCR where you could record it and you decide when you want it, but you only could watch the things that you have. And now we've gone through you could basically watch anything, time, anywhere, on any device, and it's really a like see that, as that we're ratcheted in becomes the new norm and expectation You know. And so I think that those but it also I was sharing that I found the you know the stats the most written.

They're constantly going up, but the most recent stats that I had heard was, you know, four and a half million hours a day of video uploaded to YouTube into a system that is consuming five and a half million hours a day of video across the whole platform. So the daily needs are basically going they're being met every every two days. It's double the amount of the ability we have to consume it. You know, and I really think that there's, along with chat, what I'm finding chat GPP is going to do now is that, as long as all this content is being created, it's chat GPP.

If you think about it as your team member, like you mentioned earlier, you don't need to be able to consume everything to know it, because you've got a super smart team member who has access to all of it and can summarize it or use whatever you need to know. It's a hunting dog.

Dan Sullivan
It's a. It's a retriever.

Speaker 1
It's a hunting dog.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, yeah, but. But it's also a sushi chef combined with a hunting dog.

Dean Jackson
A sushi chef combined with a hunting dog, yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, i mean it just doesn't bring you back the animal unskinned. It actually skins it and, you know, breaks out the different meat portions, organizes them, puts packages and brings it back to you.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, i mean, that's really. that is exactly right And I think that's really a you know how we got here. I think about that whole welcome to uh Farlandi. I'd love to see. I wish the guy who wrote the big change. You know the book that I recommended.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, that was a good he would do one on the 1950 to now.

Dean Jackson
Yeah, that's what I mean And that's been interesting that I, you know, I contend that from 1950 to 1985, there was not as much change as there was from, you know, 1950 to 1950 kind of thing, that 35 years.

Dan Sullivan
Well, I think the you know, I think the half century is good because there was a tremendous number of breakthroughs before the first world war, you know, and um, yeah, but I agree with you the 1950 to uh 19,. Yeah, 1985 is a good year, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1
That was sort of static.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, the world was kind of living off interest. You know it wasn't like that.

Dean Jackson
That's where.

that's where I think we are right now, Like I think we got to where we got to, where you had radio, you had television, you had books, magazines, all of that stuff, automobiles, electricity, everything was that sort of like full maturity, air travel, right, all of it was 1950. We kind of got to that point where all those things were now fully natural and integrated into our society And it feels like we had a, you know, this amazing period of thriving from 1950 to 1985 on the back of that platform. We kind of got used to it and all of the good stuff that came out of people adopting those things. And it feels like in 2000, you know, 2022, here or 2023, where we've gotten to with digitization, everything ever, you know, if you just even take content stuff, um, you know we got from where somebody could create and broadcast television, you know, to people and somebody could make movies and put it, but it was a very few people who were you?

know there were only opening television networks, three television networks and you know half a dozen or a dozen movie studios and music companies. All the content was being metered out by a few people in charge right, very capital intensive to set together. But now we're at a point where everybody has access to everything ever written and created or recorded up to now and the ability to create and broadcast to everybody. And I think that we're going to be in a period now of I don't know how long, but I think we're going to see now the emergence of a period of settling down into that right That we're going to.

Dan Sullivan
I agree, i agree, well, i agree 100% with what you're saying. You know I mean because um and um, there was, you know, a very creative period, but when you think about it, the microchip you know started to become really accessible to individuals. You didn't really have the microchip, except you know where you could actually, i mean, things were improving that you had the benefit of The mid-play-day-to. That's where it started right Yeah, and. I agree with it, but it wasn't until graphic user interface that computers really became useful to you know to people.

You know it was Xerox that created it, never used it. Steve Jobs stole it and then Bill Gates stole it from Steve Jobs. You know creative borrowing And you know, and that's all of a sudden the world could have computers. And then out of that, you know, the military had created the internet. It was the, it was the intelligence communities in the military created the internet and they said, hey, you know, we can, you know we can make this commercial. And then they did, and then you had, you know, then you had, and you know the internet was another big, big new capability. And then you had, you could have your phone could become a computer.

Dean Jackson
You know with the iPhone, but in a way you had to I think you did on the ad with the graphical user interface is really what allowed that. But there was still a learning And I think that where we're getting now, with all of the technology and all the stuff that's available And chat, gpt or, you know, open AI, all that stuff is really like an intellectual user interface where you can just articulate your ideas. You just tell in, you just articulate what you want, and your teammate can go and make all of that happen in terms of creating even all of the tools to access everything that's ever been. Create new stuff to your articulated specification, you know for your projects, you know your project.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, and you know, and I just had some thoughts and I, you know people, you know I was talking to the people who you know think that the growth just keeps going more exponential in the future And you know, at a certain point, the singularity, god will come and announce world peace and take care of all of us. You know, and I said you know, i think it's going the other way. I said, first of all, everybody, you know, everybody in the world knows about, you know, chat GPT. I said maybe, maybe 1% have heard about it. I said 99% of people don't doubt. I haven't a clue what people are talking about you.

Dean Jackson
know right, they're worried about having enough.

Dan Sullivan
Half the world still kind of a bit nervous about whether they're going to have enough to eat that day. You know they got other things on their mind But I pointed out to somebody. I said I bet 95% of the practical use is being done in English. You know it's not even done in another language.

You know, and it's the English speaking. You know it's the main English speaking countries and you know people in India who speak English and other people who speak English, but it's all kind of an English speaking tyranny. I mean, the Chinese, of course, are trying to do their own thing, but who cares what the Chinese do? And you know and the and so it's I think I was speaking and 90% of the 100, you know the 100% are doing it is in the United States, because Americans are that type of people And and I would say the productive people who are already productive without AI are going to become 10 times more productive.

The people who are already creative without AI, are going to become 10 times more creative, and I said this is not lessening the equality in the world. This is going to, you know it's going to be, you know, solar system wide that the inequality in the world, and, and but life's not fair.

Dean Jackson
Life's not fair, that's right.

Dan Sullivan
Nobody's in charge. Yeah, and everything's made up. There are people. Oh, that feels so much better. I was looking for my Xanax, you know great.

Speaker 1
Just disclosure.

Dan Sullivan
Disclosure I don't take Xanax, i take something else.

Dean Jackson
Exactly.

Speaker 1
Yeah, i take my and I'm even cutting down on that.

Dan Sullivan
You know I'm, i'm, are you really?

Speaker 1
Yeah.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, i'm down about, i would say, 40% in usage because, I'm doing this brain neuro potential.

Dean Jackson
Right.

Dan Sullivan
And I've shown my brain scan show quite a shift in six months. you know that during the night my brain is sleeping and during the day my brain is creating worse. A lot of it was the opposite, you know, and a lot of it was the opposite when I started the scans and I was doing a lot of creative work during the night and I was kind of dozing along during the day.

Speaker 1
I'm not, I'm certain.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, so anyway, but anyhow so. And the other thing is that there are certain industries that are going to get pounded by AI and certain industries are going to be supported by AI. But, here's just an example. You know and I quoted this on the program before, but I want to put it in this context between September of 21 and September 22. There was a four million drop in new college students. Okay, so freshman college.

Wow Four million, four million, but at the same time the community colleges, which are teaching you know the trades and everything, are going through the roof. They've never gone through an expansion like this because there isn't going to be any AI plumbers, there isn't going to be any AI, you know, carpenters.

Speaker 1
Right.

Dan Sullivan
You're finding that out yourself with your, your force, your force for renovation and exactly.

Speaker 1
Yeah, you're, you're not you're not entirely.

Dan Sullivan
You're not. You're not entirely voluntary renovation.

Dean Jackson
Right, exactly, Which is just now coming to an end. We still have the dining room, But we just now this week got the carpet finished and everything. Yesterday We moved everything back into place or whatever. So it feels more settled now, but I mean we're not not quite there yet. But yeah, what a three months that whole ordeal Yeah, it took us eight months, took us eight months to get our office back.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, yeah, because we had the city water main broke and it destroyed our created the studio, by the way, Yeah, i have, and right along the lines of your friends and you know they gave us and they, you know, our team, karen Scorac, is still touching base and they said we'll give you whatever help you need, you know. so your guys have been just super, you know and yeah, we have a whole.

We have a whole new studio, same space. But you know, we've asked the city to repair its water main, please, and put some barriers between the water main when it breaks outside. And I mean, it was 19,. It was put in in the 1920s, so you know, things can fall apart in 100 years and anyway. But yeah, much more great. We have exactly the same space but it's incredibly more productive. We got five studios, we got zoom studios you know right along the lines of the studio that you go to.

Dean Jackson
Oh, that's so great. That's good news. I meant to tell you know I just had a wonderful surprise yesterday. we were just putting everything back and then Luba had been kind of keeping issues like doing having a little secret from me, but also walked in the door And yesterday afternoon, just a surprise. He had come over from Amsterdam and was in Miami. But he came up for came up yesterday and just walked in. I had no idea he was coming. So it was such a great surprise. It was really good to see him. So I spent the last 24 hours with Matjielko.

Dan Sullivan
He's so tired. By the way, yeah, tell him he's lucky that you're not a trigger happy American. Exactly That's exactly right Of course you have gates and you have guards where you live so Yeah, and Luba was conspiring with him for the whole arrival, so that was funny. Yeah it was very interesting because you know they're not living in the United States. I've observed that there's a certain level of paranoia DNA in most Americans.

They have sort of a paranoia, and generally, is that things are falling apart. This is the end of the United States. That's one of the paranoia. And the other way is they're going to, the government is going to take away all our guns And they're going to start going through the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments, and they're going to, they're going to take away all the freedoms that you get from the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. I said yeah. I said I'm a big history buff. I'm running out in the United States. I think this is the 25th time that we're. It's like. You know, this is the technology that changes everything. Well, this is the you know and.

I said, yeah, this is about the 25th time that the United States has fallen apart and this is the end. You know, you got to get. You know you got to. You got to do some deep breathing exercise. You know you got to relax. You have to learn how to relax and everything like that. But but one of the things is that I was going back to the AI thing that have you ever seen a site you've given me a great reference today with working genius, but there's a great site called visual capitalist.

Have you ever seen that?

Dean Jackson
No, I have not, yeah, it's free Capitalistcom.

Dan Sullivan
Siri wants to know if there's anything I can help her She can help me with, and, as always, there's absolutely nothing that Siri can help me with, so I just want her to let. I want her to know that you know usually. I take my. usually I take my watch and I put it in the freezer for about five hours, you know, just to put Siri on ice. By the way, visual cap just plug it in and they got it right there.

Speaker 1
It's so great.

Dan Sullivan
Yeah, it's really good, and they convert all news into diagrams and they and look at the one on AI. who gets harmed by AI?

Speaker 1
Okay, and blue collar.

Dan Sullivan
Blue collar jobs are totally protected. There's not going to be. There might be some. You know some things regarding the organization around blue collar and everything else that'll be, you know, affected, but it's all you know. You do not understand, you never understand. So anyway, she's, she's talking to me again And anyway, see, this is not a well trained dog, this is serious.

Speaker 1
Not a well trained dog.

Dan Sullivan
Okay, she, she thinks I'm going to take her out for a walk. I'm not. Anyway, the anyway, but it's very, very intriguing. And they were just talking about they're all white collar middle management jobs.

You know they're you know I mean, some of them are like programmers and coders and everything else, but they're already, they're already getting slaughtered. But but it's going to be basically all those who do a four year or seven year college education so that they can be information transfers, and you know they. But it's basically jobs that have no value creation compared with them. They're going to get. They're going to get slaughtered.

Yeah, this is great They have a section you can just go they. They have a, you know an accumulating site for AI. I love it, yeah, yeah, but it'd be interesting. I mean it'd be interesting, it would add to your, you know, because diagrams I mean good diagrams are really useful.

Dean Jackson
Of course they are. These are, these are world classes. This is great, thank you.

Speaker 1
That's a great resource.

Dean Jackson
So there's some that'll be. we got some good cliffhangers for next time. We'll find out.

Dan Sullivan
Tune in What will Dan working I'll have my I'll have my, I'll have my working, working genius profile by the end of the day. I can't wait. Awesome, Well, safe trial. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to send you the results. We have to wait and. I'll be back. I'll be back. We won't be in London, so I'll be back next Sunday, same time.

Dean Jackson
I'll be here too.

Speaker 1
Okay.

Dean Jackson
Thank you, thank you, bye.