Great, as aptly said, indeed AI will not replace inner intuition, outside perspective, and perspective. Randy, thanks for the Wisdom!!! Health and well-being to you!
There has been a fundamental but profound shift in the marketplace. If you’re like most entrepreneurs, marketers, and influencers – you’ve completely missed it. Once I tell you what happened, it will be obvious to you. But there's a good chance that you're so overwhelmed with AI slop and bad takes from gurus, it probably never broke through your consciousness. So let me reveal it to you…
The more “proven” a strategy is…the less money there is left in it.
By the time you hear about some hack or hot technique, it’s already been exploited, repackaged, and sold to people who are too lazy (or too scared), to think for themselves.
The Top Secret 7-Step Process. The $477 PDF. The webinar promising to crack the code.
You’re not early…you’re very late to a crowded room full of people running the same play, wondering why nobody’s winning. If you keep chasing what’s working for everyone else, you’re not building a business: You’re volunteering to be mediocre. Because the market doesn’t reward imitation. It punishes it.
Back in the olden days (like a year ago), finding out what works and copying it was a solid way to accelerate growth. But AI has compressed the timeless so tightly that this once primo strategy now almost guarantees failure. Because the window of opportunity that used to be many months or even a year or two, is now only weeks.
The only people who get paid at a high level are the ones who can see what others miss, question what others accept, and move before the crowd even realizes there’s a move to make.
So let me say it louder for the people in the back…
The more “proven” a strategy is…the less money there is left in it.
Let’s be honest…frameworks aren’t the enemy. (I’ve built a massively successful career both using and marketing them.) The right system, applied at the right time, can compress decades into months. It can save you a fortune…or make you one. But here are the three most important companions of any great framework:
Context. Timing. Judgment.
That’s where the real game is played. Because the moment you get lazy… the moment you outsource your thinking… the moment you start believing the framework is the magic instead of the mind applying it…that’s when you get smoked.
Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all at once.
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker didn’t give you hacks. It taught you how to decide what matters. Winning from Jack Welch didn’t give you templates. It gave you a philosophy of performance. And Good to Great from Jim Collins didn’t hand you an exact template to follow. It gave you principles to interpret your own experience.
If you read those books today and try to copy the specific examples in them (as many people do each year), you will most likely crash and burn. Because those books weren’t written to be shortcut manuals, but thinking tools.
Now, we have AI tools that can read and summarize all the books and best practices in any field in seconds. Then you can ask them to distill the best ideas, build you a strategy, and even write your marketing.
It’s an incredible unfair advantage. For about ten minutes...
Because the second something is proven, it gets knocked off. Promoted in threads on X. Taught in MBA programs. And once this dilution takes place, the original premise usually stops working the way it used to.
You don’t build wealth by knowing what works. You build wealth by knowing why it works, when it works, and when it stops working. This requires a revolutionary new entrepreneurial skill they haven’t started teaching in business schools yet:
Critical thinking.
Not curating, parroting, or hacking. Just, you know…thinking.
Critical thinking is a superpower for entrepreneurs.
Look at all the people currently buying “proven AI prompts” like they just discovered fire. Sorry Boo, the edge isn’t in the fucking prompt. The edge is your ability to test it, break it, adapt it, and apply it in a way nobody else sees yet.
That’s critical thinking. And it’s becoming rarer by the day, because we’ve created a generation that would rather download answers than develop the ability to question them.
AI doesn’t replace critical thinking. It amplifies whatever level you’re feeding into it. If your thinking is sharp, AI becomes a force multiplier. If you ask AI to do your thinking for you, it becomes a faster way to transform your brain into a brick.
So while everyone else is chasing the next hack, prompt, and plug-and-play system…train your ability to think.
Because markets shift. Technology evolves. Crowds copy. And when that happens, the only thing left standing is…
The entrepreneur who can still think for themselves.
Peace,
- RG
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Great, as aptly said, indeed AI will not replace inner intuition, outside perspective, and perspective. Randy, thanks for the Wisdom!!! Health and well-being to you!
Exploration is encouraged, but if life becomes a testing ground of fluctuating variables, let them occur at the periphery, while unwavering core principles remain to keep the venture alive and distinctive.
Thank you for the post. I had a good breakthrough today on how to pray.
Great, as aptly said, indeed AI will not replace inner intuition, outside perspective, and perspective. Randy, thanks for the Wisdom!!! Health and well-being to you!
Exploration is encouraged, but if life becomes a testing ground of fluctuating variables, let them occur at the periphery, while unwavering core principles remain to keep the venture alive and distinctive.
Thank you for the post. I had a good breakthrough today on how to pray.