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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝘁-𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Peter Atwater's framework from his remarkable book has revolutionised my interpretation of my own transition, here's a map of my last 9 months toggling between my launchpad 🚀 and stress centre 😳👇

Understanding the nexus between the certainty and control spectrums and how they directly influence confidence and vulnerability during your most important journeys and decisions feels so vitally important and poorly understood. I hight recommend this book to anyone striving to make better decisions in the moment and navigate any stressful and uncertain challenge they face.

If you've read this book and have found it useful too I'd love to hear from you!

Mid-career reinvention is less about a clear path forward and more about the thrill and discomfort of mining for hidden treasures in the depths of the unknown. 

Here's 10 reasons the 'messy middle' stage of reinvention is like mining for gold in the dark 👇

1. Being prepared to be contrarian (and look silly) by prospecting in new frontiers

2. Prospecting methodically and not letting a rush to the prize spoil the process

3. Developing mental resilience to absorb the worry of running out of resources

4. Enduring the gruelling work of trial and error involved in digging in darkness

5. Finding the toughness and conviction to lean into and stick to a new identity

6. Maintaining optimism as you continue exploring in voluntary discomfort

7. Finding new reserves of inner strength on what is often a lonely path

8. Needing huge patience, trust and conviction that you'll strike gold

9. Learning to see and trust serendipity that leads to hidden treasure

10. Understanding the fruitful and fertile nature of the darkness

I feel privileged to go on this exhilarating internal and external journey of reinvention, however the discomfort and darkness of the adventure is not obvious until you live it. If you are preparing for, embarking on or have come out of the other side of a similar journey I'd love to hear from you 🤝🙏🏻

𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔𝗜-𝗙𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁.

...One of them is a book I gave to 50 colleagues when I left banking, it's now free!

I love diving deeper down the rabbit hole to learn about frontier technologies. However, when I first got interested in AI, I had a hard time figuring out where to go deeper with my learning and start going beyond just experimenting with Chat GPT, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

So, if you are trying to dive deeply into learning on AI, here's the best places to start:

• 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘂: Amazing book by LinkedIn Founder and Super VC Reid Hoffman (co-written with GPT-4), this will give you a broad lay of the land, and is a helpful way to start becoming fluent in macro implications of AI across industries. I bought 50 copies from Amazon for my old team the day I resigned! ...It's now free to download (link below).

• 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲: by Lex Friedman (himself an expert and teacher in AI), this is a must-watch beginner conversation for anyone interested in diving deeper on all aspects of AI including the technical, ethical and existential.

• 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: Again Reid Hoffman co-creates this content with GPT-4 and a series of fascinating and unique guests across every major domain. This series will really take you down the rabbit hole on the long term implications mega trends that will be catalysed by AI and other frontier technologies. The episode with Deep Mind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is how I discovered the Pi app.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝟯 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀.

All links below in the comments, would love to hear any feedback from other AI experimenters and learners on the above and hear ideas from others on other amazing content to learn in this emergent space.