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The Personal Development Revolution Has Begun (But Most People Don’t See It Yet)

• Rob Cressy

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We’re entering a personal growth revolution powered by AI, and most people have no clue it's happening. In this episode of Built For The Game, Rob Cressy shares a lightbulb moment sparked by a Sam Parr tweet, and how it revealed the next evolution of self-leadership. You’ll learn how you can use ChatGPT to turn one insight into strategic action and why growth in this new era is no longer about consuming more, but building from who you are.

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Before we get to today's show, if you want to get started using Chat GPT fast, like the best in the world, DM me at Rob Cressy and message me fast on all social media platforms. What I'll do is send you over my Chat GPT quick start guide. This will get you building and using Chat GPT quicker and better in a way that'll drive immediate growth. Once again, DM me fast at Rob Cresse. We are entering a personal development revolution powered by AI, and most people have no idea that it's going on. And what I want to do is share a light bulb moment that I just had at lunch today and how it can change the next decade of your growth. And if you're someone whose values, growth, identity, mindset, and performance, this one realization might shift the way that you grow forever. And this is something that has more to do with self-leadership than anything it does with techie AI. So the framing is I'm at lunch today and I'm scrolling on Twitter and I see a tweet from Sam Parr, who is the host of the My First Million podcast. And he had a really insightful tweet, which I'm going to share right here for those watching on video, that was around how most decisions are small and tiny, and they move the needle maybe 1%. But there's also those big ones, those big decisions like moving to a new city or deciding that you're going to quit drinking or something you're going to train for a marathon that really moved the needle in your life. And when I saw this, it really got my juices flowing. It was well put together. It was insightful. And my mindset naturally said, hey, let's go and put this into Chat GBT because what I want to do is one, unpack this, two, build on top of it. And then three, personalize this to my world and see how it applies. And I'm going to share here sort of what this looked like on my end from a tweet. So it says act as Dan Martel, my world-class coach and advisor with depth and commentary, make it simple and easy to understand. I saw this tweet from Sam Par that inspired me and resonated with me. Let's unpack this and how it applies to my world. And then I said context and I pasted the entire tweet. So I legitimately just copy and pasted this and then boom, shaka lock. What this ended up doing was giving me the core insights. The hey, here's what we see inside of this. Here's how this applies to you, the questions, the various ways that I can look at this. And I started to build on top of this. And that's when the light bulb went off for me. Because I was like, wow, when I started my personal development journey 15 plus years ago, when I was starting at zero, no self-awareness, no growth mindsets. How in the world did I have to learn? And the answer was read books, watch YouTube videos, and listen to podcasts once they became a thing. All of those things were free because I had not yet started to invest in coaching programs because I didn't even know what that stuff was because I didn't have any of this stuff before. So I was very much on a self-learning journey. So day after day, I would read, I would listen, I would watch for 15 years in a row. And that was great. But this sort of growth is oftentimes slow. You got to figure it out on your own. And there's not a ton of personalization. So you got to connect the dots on your own. But then when I put this tweet from Sam Parr into Chat GPT, boom, instantly, it gave me everything that I wanted inside of this. And I was like, wow, this has totally changed the game in how we can develop ourselves based on anything that we see out there. So I want to sort of juxtapose this of back then versus right now, because back then, books, podcasts, YouTube videos, all free, all self-learning. Now we still have all of that same stuff. You can still read books, you can get library cards, you can even watch even more YouTube videos. But now with Chat, GBT, and Claude in AI, you can take anything you see, anything you read, anything that contributes to your growth mindset, and you go, hey, let's drop this into AI, let's unpack this, let's build this, and let's turn this into action items. And with this framing, there is literally the ability to learn from anyone at any time, in any place, because it can be one word, a sentence, or a tweet. And the key for all of this, and there's three of them for you. Number one, you gotta have a growth mindset. If you've not yet read the book, I believe it's called A Mindset or Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck. It's all around the introduction of a growth mindset. And I never assume that somebody I know has this or has read this book because nobody in my life taught me that for the first three decades of my life. That, hey, every day is an opportunity to improve and get better. And we are not trapped into this position. There are always opportunities to grow. Cool. I'm about that life. Everywhere I look, I'm all about growth. Number two, awareness. And this to me is the thing that separates me from virtually everybody in the world with how they use AI and chat and GPT. It's what I call signal recognition, aka awareness. Your ability to see, using your vision, something out there that you can then put into the AI. And one of the examples that I'd run my uh clients through is too, and you could do this right now, is look around where you are right now. If you're at a desk, if you're outside, you're in your car, you're at the gym, whatever it is. Choose anything you see. If you've got a book or a magazine or you're on social media, pick out a line, pick out a phrase, or if you're out there in public, just choose something, right? It could be caterpillar, pen, uh, a certain phrase, one line a day. It doesn't matter what it is. And then you go and you put that into Chat GBT. You say, hey, Chat GBT, I'm doing this exercise all around signal recognition and awareness. And I open this random page to this, and it said, one line a day. How does this apply to me in my world? Build this out. Boom. And what you're going to see is that no matter what you put into Chat GBT, it can help you unpack it, build on top of it, and then turn that into action items. And if that's the case, literally, everywhere you go, if you've got your eyes up, even if you're on your phone, everything is an opportunity to learn. And then the last thing here is action. Because so many people, yeah, Rob, I hear what you're saying, but they're not going to do anything about it. And that's fine because there's those of us who do, and then there's those of us who just make excuses and don't. And the world separates and rewards those of us who take action. Because I'm not just doing this to be a personal growth junkie. I legitimately respect Sam Parr, what he's built, and there's a million things that I can learn from him. So when I saw something that resonated with me, I was like, I want to know more about this. Boom, I'm learning in about three minutes significantly faster. Because if he had that insight and there's a light bulb for him, there's some gold inside of that for me. And then once you've got all that, cool. What's the action item? How am I using this to grow my business or grow my life? And this is why this is a personal development revolution. Because at no point in the history of the world have we ever had more accessibility to things that can help us grow for$20 a month, right? You pay for the version of Chat GBT, the plus version, that's$20 a month. And this is a non-negotiable. If you're listening or watching this right now, it's a non-negotiable. It's like get in the game and you do this, you can learn infinitely. And so many people, oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed by AI. Oh my God, there's just it's moving so fast. I'm falling so far behind. Throw that in the trash. That's fixed mindset talk, not growth mindset. Growth mindset, we always grow and get better. So with this now, where do you want to grow? How do you want to grow? What are the signals that you want to put in there? Because for me, you're seeing this in a full life cycle from seed, sampar tweet while I'm at lunch. Then the signal recognition, let's put this into Chat GBT. And then boom, the insights in the build out. Then the next level for me of like, oh, I gotta show this in real time on a live stream on video and podcast with everybody else to open their eyes to what's possible in this AI era. Because the thing that I love about the AI era is it's completely unromantic about who you are, what you do for business, how much money you have in the bank. Are you having a good day, a bad day? Everything, right? Because in a moment's notice, all you gotta do is take action. And we love to show the receipts. You're either doing it or not doing it. And this brings us to number two here. And I was on a call with a client of mine today who was on vacation for the last month. So we'd connected for the first time in a month, and I was showing him how I had used my vision board and put pictures from my vision board into ChatGBT and then started building on top of it. And I opened up the new portal of building Azure Future Self now. And we were unpacking that and applying it to uh his world and all of this. And he goes, Wow, Rob, um, I just really haven't been using ChatGBT for my personal growth lately. I've gotten away from it. And those words inspired me because he is somebody who is already doing the work. So he's about this life, and even he had gotten away from using Chat GBT for personal growth. But how many people are out there that have never used Chat GPT for their personal growth? How many people out there have never done anything for their personal growth? And one of the things that I've done in the last two weeks with my client calls, both one-on-one and the group and team coaching, is a very simple exercise. It was around the vision board concept because it was all right, by a show of hands. How many of you believe in the power of visualization? All the hands go up. All right, number two, how many of you have heard of a vision board? All of the hands go up. Cool. Number three, how many of you have a vision board and a visualization practice? Crickets. No one raised their hand. Oh, and that's when the next light bulb came out. It's all around experience and earned confidence. Because why am I not seeing other people sharing content on Instagram or LinkedIn or Facebook around? Hey, here's how you can take your vision board and visualization practice and put it into Chat GBT and collapse time and build as your future self now. It's because so many people aren't doing the work. You cannot give to others that which you are not experiencing yourself. So you might hear of vision boards, you might believe in visualization, but if you're not doing it, you're not creating on top of it. Well, guess what? For the last 15 years of my life, I have been investing in my personal growth and development first thing in the morning, every single day, weekends included, for 15 years. Why? Because I was at zero. No growth mindset, no self-awareness, no revenue, no clients, and I just quit my corporate job. And I sat there and I was like, whoa, I'm at zero. I better do something about this. But why? Because I'm all in on my dreams. That's it. Because when you leave a multiple six-figure job to go all in on your dreams and go to zero, you got to figure that thing out because that meter is running, because that money is going to run out. And you quickly realize how little you know when you're sitting there with no revenue, no clients, no website on that first day. You're like, wow, this is pretty cool, but I know nothing. And that's when I was reading a fast company in Inc. magazine 15 years ago, and I kept hearing the average CEO read 60 books a year. And I just looked at myself and I was like, uh, I'm reading zero. I've never read a book for pleasure or growth. Think I should get on this. And that's when I created a reading routine. So so much of what I share and I coach and I teach is from earned experience because I was not this person. I did not have any of this stuff. So when I'm seeing this in real time, this is because this is a macro signal, right? I showed you the micro. Boom. Sam Par tweet, throw it into Chat GBT. Vision board, throw it into ChatGBT, build it your future self now. But the bigger lens is all around the personal development revolution that we are entering right now. And you have an opportunity right now to make a decision. Am I going to use this talk right now as just another podcast you listen to today? Or is this something that's going to change the rest of your life? Are you going to leave here right now and say, you know what? I'm going to look at something that I can put into Chat GPT that inspires me. I'm curious about and I'm intrigued about, or I want to learn and I'm going to build on top of this. Because legitimately, this is just a tool in my creator tool belt, right? It's one of those unconscious, always present things that if you're going to be scrolling social media, might as well have this lens up. You're watching football or whatever. Boom, you've got this awareness to what are the announcers saying? What are the commercials saying? Everything is an opportunity to create on top of. And in the next few weeks, I'm going to be launching something called the unlimited method, the human-first approach to creating with AI in a way that grows your business and your life. And this is all around this framework of personalize, think, create. The way that we can lead from a heart-first, human-first perspective in the AI era. And one of those buckets is all around personalization. We can personalize our personal development. This is next around how you think about your personal development. And then number three, how you create with your personal development. And what I'm learning through my own journey of this is this is less about AI and more about where you want to grow. And AI is just the thing that powers this. So want to share this in real time because this was a massive light bulb moment for me. You're going to be seeing a lot more from me in the personal development side of things because that's where I live all day, every day for myself and my clients. And yes, we use AI for this. So I would love to hear from you. Is there anything that I shared today caused you to think, inspired you to take action? Or what was that signal recognition that you see or saw today? You can hit me up on all social media platforms at Rob Cressy, sending tons of love and good vibes your way. And remember, create from your heart, you win.