How to Succeed in the Age of AI

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As intelligence becomes something we can outsource, what becomes of us? In this episode, Joe and Brett explore what it means to thrive in an era where machines can handle knowledge work, and why the skills that matter most are becoming deeply human. From raising AI to being raised by it, they discuss how this technological shift is also an invitation to reclaim connection, purpose, and wisdom. They discuss: - Why wisdom is the new competitive advantage - The difference between knowledge and being good at being human - How small teams with strong relationships are replacing large bureaucracies - What happens when society loses its sense of purpose - Signs that your AI use is helping or hurting you - How to use AI for personal development without losing yourself

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0:00.0	We have a new technology coming in that's going to change the world. But it also changes what skills are necessary to be productive. How do you make the most of it? You look at it as how do I become more wise? How do I have, how do I be more human in this situation? Tell me what you mean by wisdom and how does that show up in a new era?
0:21.7	Wisdom at its core is what are the decisions you're making? Are you able to see the patterns
0:25.7	behind yourself and others that allow you to make great decisions? Are you able to do the hard
0:31.0	thing? Are you able to feel the difficult thing? And I would to some degree call wisdom being really
0:37.1	good at being human.
0:40.2	Joe, you coach the founders of OpenAI, and we work with a lot of people from Anthropic and Deep Mind and all the main AI labs.
0:46.9	And we've done a lot of talking about AI behind the scenes.
0:49.8	We haven't brought that to the podcast yet.
0:51.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:52.3	And I'd really love to have a conversation about
0:55.3	AI. I think this is a really good time to do that because it's a we're raising AI. Humanity right now is
1:01.9	raising AI and in some ways like AI is now raising us. And so I think this would be a very cool
1:09.2	conversation to have. Yeah. Great. Let's do it. So how do you see AI right now? Let's just start very general. Yeah. What is it that we're dealing with on a societal scale right now? Yeah. There's a couple ways I see it. The first way that I see it is we have a new technology coming in, a new tool, a new
1:28.6	technology that's coming in that's going to change the world.
1:32.5	This we've seen before many, many times.
1:35.1	We've seen it with television and with radio and with the Industrial Revolution, the
1:39.3	information revolution.
1:41.3	And that does some things that are generally pretty typical. It creates some sort of gap between the haves and the have-nots.
1:48.0	It creates a whole bunch of new jobs and opportunities.
1:51.0	That turmoil allows for a lot of people to have a lot of success or to change their life in a really positive way.
1:57.0	But it also changes what skills or what parts of us as humans are necessary to be productive.
2:06.7	Before the Industrial Revolution, there was a lot of strength that was necessary potentially to
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