Got AI Anxiety? Do This Right Now!

[00:01] do this right now. I think people are super screwed right. Now. How can you separate yourself from someone else? One document, seven minutes, it's going to change your life.

[00:18] a single markdown file that describes everything about you, and then we'll give it to AI so it can hack you. What? Trust me, it's amazing. What are you talking about? Well, L comes down to this. In the age of ai,

[00:33] you step into an elevator, doors closed. I'm standing there. I look over to you and say, explain yourself. Two sentences, eight seconds go. Odds are you probably can't because I couldn't do it until about six months ago,

[00:47] He's been in cybersecurity for like 25 years and now he's building AI stuff. He showed me this new thing he created called Telos.

[00:59] It's a text-based infrastructure and schema for capturing things that matter to Putting everything about you into one document, your goals, your missions,

[01:11] This process forces you to get real with yourself, People will lose jobs. I don't know how fast people are going to adapt.

[01:24] But the interesting thing is this is not just for you. This document is structured in a way for AI to know you. That sounds weird, unlocking blind spots you never even knew you had.

[01:40] it can figure out maybe a trend so we can apply to my current you might be wrong about this one in the same way you were wrong about that

[01:54] my goal is that you will have started your very own telos file. to pin test your life. And let's be honest, you need a pin test, that elevator pitch proving that you know what you're doing. You have a purpose,

[02:10] Doesn't that sound awesome? By the way, things I learned about myself through hacking myself. It's pretty crazy,

[02:22] this is going to be a difficult process because it's going to make you dig deep, The fact that it is difficult and the fact that it's slow and deliberate I think So get your coffee ready, grab the template below.

[02:37] It's time for you to get to know you. Seven minutes to figure out your life. doesn't it? Because you might be like me. Six months ago, Daniel Meer showed me this simple markdown file and said, Hey Chuck,

[02:50] but after three meetings totaling over six hours, I get it. That's it. That's it

[03:03] is a context file written in text that understands pretty much everything about you that you can use in various ways You're going to get two things out of this that are massively going to change

[03:16] your life. One, you're going to know you, you're going to figure some stuff out. who you are. And in the words of my mentor, Jeremy Chara, clarity is life. The second thing you'll get out of this is context. Context on you.

[03:31] could be local and private, public. problems to figure out where you're going to talk it through. That's a superpower. You're about to see the power of that here in the moment,

[03:44] man, did I find some things out? Also, give it to a person, a trusted advisor, a best friend to say, Hey, hold me accountable. Help me figure some things out. And it looks like this. I told you it's basic and that's why it's amazing. Now,

[03:59] it means purpose is what it means from the Greek, And that's why Daniel chose this word,

[04:12] because this document will describe your why. Your why for existence. Let's figure that out right now. Now here are the four main sections. Let me add that some mosey on over narratives and goals.

[04:29] you're going to figure out you. You're going to know you very well. But second, and this might be both the most encouraging and scariest thing I'll say to you your job has been your identity, at least for most people. I mean,

[04:45] what do you do, Craig? What is your job? Because that has always defined us, this isn't a doom and gloom video about AI taking our jobs,

[04:59] but this is going to be a reality check that AI is certainly changing our jobs. your goals helps you figure out what your not what your company is doing. Yes, but many of us don't have our own.

[05:15] It's like, what are you about? That's your job. What are you about? What are your opinions of the world? What do you think should be different? What are you about figuring this out is the most future-proof thing you can do

[05:31] for yourself right now. If you have any AI anxiety about the job market, do this right now. And by the way, this isn't all your telos file has to be. let's focus in on our four sections, seven minutes on the clock. Let's do this.

[05:46] Problems are the things you see wrong in the world that you want to actively This is like what is the big problem in outside world that we're trying to

[05:58] but for you it might be different. In fact, many of you responded with the problems you see in the world, The rest I compiled in a list anonymously, don't worry,

[06:15] It's so encouraging to see that people are seeing these problems and they want here are some example problems that many of you put down. Unrealistic experience requirements for entry-level tech jobs or children and

[06:30] people getting scammed, their identity stolen. But you also might be like, Hey Chuck, I don't really have any big world problems. I have my own problems.

[06:44] I want to get into tech and I'm trying to study for my certifications. And if that's your frustration and that's your problem, write that down. But what I want to point out is that many of those personal frustrations can

[06:59] I want to find a job and you yourself might encounter the paradox of needing As you're battling that reality,

[07:11] solve this problem for good for many people because many people experience that. Write down personal things you're trying to solve,

[07:24] but also take the time to think, huh, does this affect anyone else? you could spend a lot of time on this, but we don't have time right now. I do have a profitable load that you can copy and paste into Chad, GPT, grok,

[07:39] And once you've identified a problem or a few problems, And these are your missions, the things that you are going to do about the problems you see.

[07:52] which is called the most important sentence, which was something like, I think one of the biggest problems in the world is this,

[08:06] which is why I'm this. And that helps us fill this in and it's like the perfect unifying thing. It unifies problems and our mission.

[08:20] your one problem might be that you're trying to get a job and your mission is to get a job or you want to battle child exploitation and trafficking. but notice how our problems are chaining to our missions,

[08:34] Once you've settled on your mission, now it's time to tell that story. This is your elevator pitch, your narrative. Again, you walk into an elevator, Maybe you got 15 seconds, maybe you got 30 seconds. Tell me go.

[08:50] You never know what's going to happen. So whether you're at a party, a mixer, a job interview, you want to have what you're about ready to go. My favorite analog for this is like, so you're just like in a wide open field.

[09:06] but visiting alien shows up and they got a clipboard and they're just like, who are you? And you're like, I'm Jason. I do spreadsheets at work. It's eight hours a day. It's good work. I make money.

[09:21] And they're like, no, no, you don't understand. Who are you? What are you about? What are you here to do? And they're just like, what do you mean? I told you I'm a spreadsheet person. I do this. And through this conversation,

[09:35] So maybe the story of how you're transitioning from retail to jumping into shorter ones for those short elevator rides or longer 32nd pitches when you're

[09:49] People care about stories and this is the story of what you're doing. Make them care. And what's cool in the process of doing this yourself, you start to care more. Now, this one might take you a minute,

[10:01] spit it out. You can always use AI to go back and help you figure it out, finesse it a bit. But don't let this hamper your progress. Let's move on. Hey, This coffee break is brought to you by a problem I see in the world right now.

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[11:24] but now it's time to actually do stuff. That's your goal or your goals. And good goals are always smart. They're specific, they're measurable, These are the things you're actually doing to make your mission happen.

[11:40] but you also want to make it measurable so you have metrics and it's time bound. skills. Get those certifications. Again, you could spend a lot of time here,

[11:52] Let's move on because you can go back to this because you will go back to this. Keep coming back because you got to make sure you're on track now,

[12:05] Filling these out get you on mission. spend some time with it. Think about it. For me, asking, Hey, what should I care about? But I'm telling you, doing this,

[12:21] getting this kind of clarity will save your life. It'll make your life. And sure, the idea of setting goals and planning and all that is not new, but what's different about this is that it's simple and it's in one markdown

[12:33] We still have more sections to worry about, You'll definitely want to include a section on history, so hashtag hashtag a second level heading for history. This is your history,

[12:48] I was born and raised in Texas. I failed third grade twice. going back and reflecting is going to change you a bit. The old adage is true.

[13:02] start making connections. doing is because I failed third grade twice. Just things like that. bit better, but it's not just about that.

[13:18] As we're describing you in this one single file, Context that we can feed into any kind of AI to help us see things we've seeing a bunch of data and making connections for us.

[13:35] Hey, here's me, what am I missing? Oh my gosh, how powerful is that? I'm not giving my information to an ai. That's fine. Use local ai,

[13:50] And even if you never share this with an ai, just creating this now for yourself is insanely valuable. Now, I'm still filling mine out. I'll think about things every once in a while.

[14:04] One challenge might be I don't have a computer and I have to overcome that don't have any contact with law enforcement, so it might be hard to start battling child trafficking.

[14:18] studying a schedule every day. the better you'll be able to solve your problems and achieve your goals, You're getting a bird's eye view of your life.

[14:33] I've got a solution for you you didn't think about before that's, think about that. Oh, I'm so excited for you to do this. And then you can expand to whatever section you want to add as you're trying to

[14:49] a life you're proud of. And tell it what the basic flow is. Problem, mission, challenges and strategies and projects. These are kind of the core.

[15:05] And what's really cool about this structure here is that when you have a project on this list, you know why you're doing the project. things that hold you back that ultimately you want to conquer. And by the way,

[15:20] the AI will be able to know your structure and your insecurities might be, and this is actually one of my real ones and I can't believe I'm saying this

[15:32] You can't tell because I'm sitting down, this one document is about to become your best therapy session and maybe something you can hand to your therapist like, Hey, let's not waste any time.

[15:47] Read this. You can add a section on finances strategies. A strategy might be, or I have a home assistant automation that turns off my internet at 8:00 PM so I the most useful section will be your journal or your logs.

[16:02] You'll put this at the very bottom of your file. You'll always add to this. The point of putting those in there is when the AI sees it, it's going to see these oscillations. Okay?

[16:14] This is the basis for using this thing as a therapist, just life stuff. Diary. I mean, that's the old word for it, right? You write in a diary. you might be thinking like a journaling file system or something like that.

[16:27] This is not technical. This is very personal. It's very human. So it's like, Hey, I just haven't been able to get out of bed lately. And by the way, make a habit of whenever you add anything to your telos file,

[16:40] This is a living document at a timestamp date and time when you're doing it, It could be as simple as a bullet point with the date and a short thing I didn't

[16:52] I got stressed and I just played video games. It can be very, very simple. It can also be complex.

[17:04] I'll show a sanitized version of what I do right here on the screen, but I have a daily note in obsidian that I log my day as my day goes I journal and think about my day and process things.

[17:20] boom, into a bullet point at the end of my telos file. So not only have I given this document a ton of static context on what I'm I'm also documenting the daily things I'm doing. And let me tell you,

[17:38] I think it's been like two, three months. Oh my goodness. The way I'm able to pen test myself with AI and it to totally roast me for the things I'm missing is incredible. I'm telling you,

[17:52] How are you using AI to pen test you, to roast you? Let me show you. I want you to have at least the main four sections filled out, put some logging in there and then we can do some fun stuff.

[18:06] If you dunno what fabric is, I made a video on it like right here. and lemme give you a taste for what I'm doing with my telos file. Inside Fabric,

[18:18] Daniel made some for telos that are extremely powerful. One that I love is red team thinking. Let's see what that is. Here's the prompt, You don't have to use fabric, but fabric makes it significantly easier.

[18:35] a command called TLOs that will look at my TLOs file and output it as standard or a pen test my mind. I can't believe I'm showing you this.

[18:47] So anyone else identify with this, your journaling reveals chronic procrastination patterns masked as productive You're peering inside my soul right now.

[19:02] I honestly cannot believe I'm showing you this, but look at the recommendations. Replace emotional spiritual highs with steady, boring faithfulness.

[19:16] create opening sentences that's helping you create your narratives. So lemme try that one. I mean, this is awesome. This is so cool. I need something for this party. I'm going to, boom, I've got this, guys.

[19:33] I'm telling you, you have to try this. Fine blind spots. This measuring success through YouTube metrics while claiming to surrender outcomes

[19:46] planning elaborate systems without accounting for your documented pattern of abandoning them and viewing interruptions as failures rather than divine you're seeing me be therapized right now,

[20:02] you don't see these. That's why they call them blind spots. But this one, I love when you need some encouragement. It's not all pen testing, and I mean, I'm okay with sharing this and huh, this is cool.

[20:16] If you're still at the point where you're like, Chuck, I don't get it. This is nothing groundbreaking or new. And I would say, you're right.

[20:28] It's not doing anything different from those other self-help programs that walk You're achieving the same end. But what's unique about this,

[20:40] which I guess does mean it's a bit different, is that it's simple. so you don't go too off the rails, but then at that point, tailored to be used with the AI to help you to augment you and not replace you.

[20:56] Now, I alluded to this fact earlier in the video that AI is changing jobs. It is. We can't ignore that. Now, personally, I don't think jobs are going away, but I do think they're changing fundamentally and for us to be ready for

[21:08] No one knows what's going to happen, but whatever is going to happen, the telos file where you're figuring yourself out and you're identifying you're going to be okay no matter what happens. Now,

[21:23] a few things I forgot to mention, this telos file again, will become large. This thing can become larger, it may not be able to hold the context of what your telos file is.

[21:39] AI is getting better. We're at almost 2 million context windows now, you can section things off. You can have your journal separate,

[21:51] Or maybe you have your journal section by months or years, and there are about 5,000 ways to do this in very cool ways.

[22:03] I even saw people inside Daniel Messer's unsupervised learning community, It's people who obsess over this and are always tweaking their lives. instead of journaling, typing it out or writing,

[22:18] he has a prompt that he does with Chad GT in the voice mode where it takes him Then it outputs the result of that conversation at the end of his telos file. So don't let anything stop you from doing this because there's about 15,000 ways

[22:33] to do it. And also, don't let that overwhelm you. Just start simple. no matter what stage you're in, I'm the high school, middle school, Don't get bogged down in the rules of the framework.

[22:47] Just take the step to identify what you're about and use the tools we have at AI is an insanely good sounding board for ideas. That's all. I got massive shout outs to Daniel Meisler for taking the time to help me

[23:02] understand this entire telos process and for putting me on this path. and I'm grateful that he gave me the opportunity to talk about this with you Clarity is life and I would love to know below if you were able to do this.

[23:16] I am showing a tool, but it's more of a life tool, not so much a technical tool, but this channel I feel like is more about just learning the next new thing. building a life in a career that you enjoy,

[23:31] making an impact in your community and your family and in the world. That's all I got. I'll catch you guys next time.