Escaping Creative Scarcity in the Age of AI (with Jesse Showalter)

AI can make us feel like the opportunities to be creative are drying up. For those in creative professions, this is a double threat.

With our identities and livelihoods being challenged by new tech, how can we escape the mindset of scarcity and use that tech to take our creativity and careers to the next level?

Jesse Showalter has some answers to these questions. Jesse is a UI/UX designer and educator who has built a successful business and Youtube channel over many years, and he is also a master adapter.

In this conversation with Merging Minds host Gabriel Fairman, Jesse shares his tips for adapting to challenging career situations and for escaping mentalities that hold us back.  

Jesse and Gabriel discuss:

• Finding your niche
• The benefits of a slow career journey
• Saying no to clients
• The correlation between specificity and clarity
• The benefit of a small pool of clients
• Scarcity mindsets
• Reading boring business books
• The art of subtraction in business and life
• AI is trying to give you a promotion
• What jobs AI does threaten
• The importance of the "human touch" in business
• Clinging to the past in technological revolutions
• The lesson of Garth Brooks and technology
• What if John Henry worked with the steam engine?
• Adopting an entrepreneurial mindset to advance in your career
• Curiosity and resourcefulness as learnable traits
• Reverse engineering success
• The Dynamis of Experimentation
• Accountability as the amplifier of all actions

And much more!

Click play to hear a great conversation between Jesse and Gabriel!

You can learn more about Jesse Showalter here, and check out his Youtube channel here.

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