Confronting the AI Challenge: An Introspective Journey
Why I'm Learning AI for 100 Days (And You're Coming Along for the Ride)
Look, I'll be honest with you—AI intimidates the hell out of me. And I'm supposed to be the person who teaches people about technology for a living! But here's the thing: I'm tired of nodding along in conversations about machine learning and neural networks while secretly having no clue what anyone's talking about.
So I made a decision. For the next 100 days, I'm diving headfirst into artificial intelligence as a complete beginner. No pretending I know more than I do, no glossing over the confusing parts. I'm going to document everything—the "aha!" moments, the times I want to throw my laptop out the window, and all the messy, frustrating, occasionally brilliant stuff that happens when you're actually trying to learn something hard.
If you've ever felt lost when people start throwing around AI buzzwords, or if you've been meaning to understand this whole AI revolution but don't know where to start—well, you're in exactly the right place. We're figuring this out together, one day at a time.
This is day one. Let's see what happens.
What I'm Learning So Far:
- AI is intimidating, and that's totally normal. One minute you feel like you're getting it, the next minute you're completely lost. Welcome to being human while learning something this complex.
- I'm learning out loud on purpose. As someone who teaches tech stuff, I figured documenting my fumbling around in real-time might actually help other people who are fumbling around too.
- AI moves ridiculously fast. Just when you think you've wrapped your head around something, three new tools launch and everything changes again. It's exhausting and exciting at the same time.
- You don't need to be an expert to help someone else. Being just one step ahead of another beginner sometimes makes you the perfect person to explain things—you remember what it was like to not get it.
- People are struggling, and we need more helpers. There's a mental health crisis happening, and coaches and practitioners are more important than ever.
- AI could be a game-changer for helping people. If we can figure this stuff out, we might be able to reach and support way more people who need it. That's worth the learning curve.
Chapters:
- 00:02 - Embarking on the AI Journey
- 01:03 - A Journey of Growth and AI
- 02:35 - The Evolution of AI in Coaching
- 04:08 - Embracing Uncertainty in AI Learning
- 04:48 - Navigating the Mental Health Crisis with AI
- 05:43 - Gratitude and Goodbye
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Transcript
So about a month ago I committed to learning AI and documenting my journey as I went through it.
Speaker A:Now the reason I chose to do that was because I thought as a technical trainer and a technical writer, it would be brilliant to document it in a way that I'm approaching it as an absolute beginner because most of us are absolute beginners in this space.
Speaker A:And I thought, I'll do it messy, I'll do it real and I'll make it fun.
Speaker A:And then on day one I thought, what have I actually let myself in for?
Speaker A:And the reason I questioned that was one I don't like.
Speaker A:I like being visible, I don't like showing up on video.
Speaker A:I'm great at creating training courses as long as you don't have me in the front.
Speaker A:I prefer, you know, podcasts, audio rather than video.
Speaker A:Great face for podcast.
Speaker A:Anyway, I committed to this 100 day journey that I mentioned last week just to get me out of my comfort zone and actually deliver because I kind of think it's important and it's really interesting.
Speaker A:I've been creating some of the scripts and answering some of the questions on why I started this journey in the first place and why it's got me quite cheerful and filling up and how can that be with AI?
Speaker A:Why is it so important to me?
Speaker A:That happens.
Speaker A:So I'm going to have a drink.
Speaker A:Let's really get started.
Speaker A:So three weeks ago I had this massive light bulb moment.
Speaker A:I was scrolling through more AI articles on replacing coaches, on taking jobs, and especially when I was thinking of neuro linguistic programming and hypnosis.
Speaker A:I'm a certified trainer.
Speaker A:It really hit me that this is all about language.
Speaker A:Nlp, Neuro Linguistic Programming, LLM, a large language programming models.
Speaker A:It's about prompts, it's about power questions.
Speaker A:And I just thought that this is literally what transformational practitioners do, so they have an advantage.
Speaker A:And then reality kicked in.
Speaker A:I thought I had like two years to sit with this and to develop it and to think about it being a reflexer.
Speaker A:And it turns out that AI is developing faster then I can even learn about it.
Speaker A:So when I started this, I actually put out in my newsletter that I wanted to create bots.
Speaker A:But the bots I wanted to create in the beginning are now standard features in ChatGPT.
Speaker A:And don't even get me started on the range of acronyms.
Speaker A:I spent an embarrassing amount of time wondering if an AI agent was some sort of James Bond bot on X.
Speaker A:But anyway, so here I am, camera shy, introvert, off the scale introvert, deciding to document this whole messy journey that I'm on and that I've been on, because I thought if I've been confused, if I've been asking these questions, if I've been discovering things that are uncomfortable and constantly questioning, should I actually be working with AI in the first place, then other practitioners are probably in that space too, especially the more you learn about it.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's.
Speaker A:It's a big thing.
Speaker A:So here's what I'm learning.
Speaker A:On day one, it's okay to feel overwhelmed by the bigness of AI.
Speaker A:It is big.
Speaker A:It's massive.
Speaker A:And it's okay to know what only half the terms mean.
Speaker A:And it's definitely okay to admit that just maybe I don't need to have it all figured out before I start, even before I speak to other practitioners.
Speaker A:Because even if I'm just a little bit ahead, I can help you with what I've learned and the growth that I've gone through over the last six weeks or so.
Speaker A:And the thing is that the mental health crisis is exploding as we know people need our help, need the help of coaches and transformational practitioners and NLPers and hypnotists more than perhaps they've ever needed before.
Speaker A:And AI might just be the two the that helps us serve more people than we can without it.
Speaker A:So are you on this journey with me?
Speaker A:Drop a comment.
Speaker A:What's your biggest AI confusion right now?
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's figure this out together.
Speaker A:I would love your feedback as I go through.
Speaker A:Don't be too cruel.
Speaker A:And tomorrow in day two, I'll be covering where I discover that learning curve might have been a bit of an understatement.
Speaker A:I'll see you then.
Speaker A:And thank you for taking the time.
