If AI had ruled in the 60's and 70's we would not have Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen.
My timeline is filled with AI writing designed with perfect psychology to grab your mind, AI images and videos designed with visual and marketing expertise to stop your scroll, and advertisements for all the ways AI can "write you a great song..."
Give your simple idea to AI and your two word lyrics become a hit song. It's easy.
And therein is the trap. It's easy.
Becoming yourself is not.
Hendrix and Van Halen are guitarists who notably didn't just play outside the box... they ripped the existing box to shreds and offered a whole new way to think.
They ignored common thinking and introduced their unique place in the world.
Wouldn't you like to do that too? Maybe not on guitar, but... you know... that thing that rolls around in your mind when you have extra time. That thing that has your mind captive and you just know that your idea, your way of thinking is important.
Your school experience might have undermined that. People in your life might have gotten you to question it.
But innovation does not come from listening to those voices, and it doesn't come from complex mimicry. It comes from courage, and it comes from uniquely formed souls that don't let the world tell them who they are, and they certainly don't let anyone or anything think for them.
I literally just saw an ad for "AI Jesus"... as if you could talk to Jesus on your keyboard. It was two posts away from "AI Therapy".
If AI ruled the 60's we would never have Jimi Hendrix, and if you let AI rule the 2020's we may never have what you are here to give.
Jesus, therapists, coaches, healers, spiritual teachers... what they have and what they give is not a bedrock of studied strategies, delivered with effective technique. What they have and what they give is presence. Connection. Their personhood, willing to intersect with yours.
Jesus in particular cannot and should not be watered down to teachings and advice. He carried the Divine Presence with Him. This cannot be behaviorally or verbally mimicked. This cannot be given away through mere language, no matter how clever.
The most important part of the healing arts is presence.
The most important aspect of your life is being.
Your greatest satisfaction, happiness, fulfillment in life will not happen if you "get the best input and adhere to it..." It happens when you gain the courage to be you and be present.
Nobody taught Eddie Van Halen to change the way people think of the guitar... he fearlessly set out to discover and unleash. It didn't come from what he learned, it came from who he was. What he learned merely unleashed something uncopyable.
If AI ruled the 60's and 70's two great innovators might have slept through their appointed decades. Don't sleep through your decade. Be awake. Be alert. In the age of AI do not sleep and do not outsource becoming. Develop the muscle of discovering and unleashing your truest self.