Conviction
Is deciding before you ask for advice
Every unanswered question becomes a decision which you don’t escape by waiting or by opening another chat window
You don’t escape it by asking for five more options. Something decides and if it isn’t you, the model will.
Don’t be like lazy old me and ask AI questions I should have answered before I opened the laptop.
What’s the strategy?
How should I respond?
What do you think?
The model will be happy to fill in the blanks you leave because it was trained explicitly to do so.
A fuzzy goal becomes its goal. A fuzzy standard becomes its standard. A fuzzy opinion becomes its opinion.
You’ll watch the words appear and, before long, you can’t remember which ideas were yours.
Cause you handed it the steering wheel to produce endless motion in a direction of its choosing.
Life works the same way.
Conviction is deciding before you ask for advice.
It’s deleting the draft instead of polishing it, saying no without writing a paragraph to justify it and living with the consequences of your own decisions.
There is no shortage of answers now and every year the models will get better, faster and more cost efficient.
Every year conviction (not taste, judgement or whatever twitter cliches say) matters more.
An undecided person has always been easy to lead.