Episode
49
Futurist John Sanei on A.I., Neuroscience, and the Mystical
Join us in a conversation with John Sanei, future strategist and transformation specialist. John works with organizations get excited for the future of work, the future of leadership, organizational restructuring and the future of education. He’s the author of two books, “Who Do We Become?” and “FOREsight.”
In this episode we discuss:
- The advancement of neuroscience as a practical way of raising our consciousness.
- How our breaking points can act as the seed for transformational moments.
- Grief, resistance and building optimism: a growth journey for individuals and teams.
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Interview excerpts:
AI is changing the world - are you and your business on top of it?
” You've got to ask yourself three questions: What's my appetite? What's my ambition? What are my capabilities? Am I using those to defend, extend, or upend? Am I working in today and tomorrow, and how am I breaking those down? And how am I using AI, is it internal, external, game-changing or everyday? It depends where you are and what business, and I don't think there's one skin for everybody. You've got to decide where you're at, and where's the maturity of your industry. We're at a time of inflection, in many ways. It's a big time.”
Neuroscience can teach us so much about awareness, acceptance and advancement.
” How do I change my awareness of pace? Because we know this, that you cannot solve a problem from the same awareness that created it. So if you don't have an ability, a toolset, a program, a habit, whatever it is... to change your awareness of pace, you're stuck. And if you're stuck, the world's becoming a horrible place because AI is replacing your intelligence, the world's getting harder in many ways if you're not elevating your consciousness. And so... the advancement of neuroscience becomes a very practical way for us to start to think about raising our consciousness.”
Let’s look to the future with optimism, hand-in-hand with AI.
”So the job is to change your awareness, see it as a friend, work with it as a optimistic partner. Let's use it together to try and fix a better world - otherwise it can be quite a scary thing. ”