Hello and welcome to edition #9 of LBM. Your quick injection of Inspirational stories, science backed personal development mixed with a touch of ancient wisdom just for good measure. Plus the latest in ai tech news & tips for business and life advancement as used and reviewed by yours truly! 😁👍🏼

Sneak Peak:

My thoughts on: Everybody’s talking about A.I.

Feature Article: The Curse of Status Quo.

Ai News and tips: A.I. can now self-improve.

It's all About A.I. These Days…

A.I. this, A.I. that… and how you have to jump on it ASAP and start using it in your business. And honestly? That part’s true.

But here’s the thing, I’ve been watching business and technology trends for over 40 years. I started my first business when I was just 18. Actually, even before that if you count my first paper round… although I’m not sure I should count the leftover papers that regularly ended up in the dumpster behind the newsagent. Whoops!

But this A.I. wave? This is different. Like, really different.

This is the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Sure, it’s a tech revolution but the effect is the same: Those who don’t get involved will be left behind.

Now, there’s still time but nowhere near as much as there used to be. These kinds of shifts used to take 10 years to go mainstream. This? It’s moving exponentially faster.

Personally, I believe we’ll hit AGI by 2029. Maybe sooner. Maybe much sooner.

I reckon we’ve got 4 to 5 (maybe less) solid years to get ahead before things shift in a massive way.

And here’s the kicker: The people who embrace A.I. and use it across every area of their business… They’ll be the ones still earning income from their business, while a whole bunch of others are out of work and reliant on UBI or something similar.

So yeah, there’s a lot of hype out there… But this isn’t just another trend.

Over the years, there’s always been something “new” you had to jump on or risk falling behind. But this? This is very different. We’ve got to move on this now.

And by the way—yes, I can help you with all of this. But more importantly, I can help you with your Mindset through this entire AI shitstorm.

Because if your subconscious isn’t programmed for success, then nothing else will work. Not the latest tech. Not the best, most expensive marketing. None of it.

It all starts in your mind.

That’s what I do, I literally program you for success.

Just sayin’.

- Grant

The Cursed Stickiness of the Status Quo

Want to know one of the biggest threats to a successful Quantum Leap in your Life?

It’s your status quo, your present way of operating, those behaviors and beliefs that are so well established, so habitual, so ingrained.

Shaking loose from your status quo can be wickedly difficult. And there’s the problem.

Quantum leaps in behavior almost always require an abrupt shift away from your current modus operandi. Why? Because you’re seeking a very different outcome than you’re getting now. Uncommon success calls for an uncommon approach. Don’t expect your conventional way of operating to produce a rapid and dramatic change in results.

Even trying harder—simply relying on a heavier dose of what you’ve been doing— usually produces only incremental gains rather than a quantum leap breakthrough. “More of the same” is a bad gamble. The odds are far better if you try differently, maybe even easier!

The Status Quo Bias

It’s counterintuitive, though, to ditch your most practiced and familiar moves in pursuit of a new, extremely challenging goal. It seems impractical, more risky, even crazy. Sticking with your status quo approach feels safer and more sensible.

That’s your cognitive bias, your preference for the current way of doing things.

Let’s look at three reasons why the status quo is so sticky:

1.  We humans have a peculiar but natural aversion to loss. When faced with the need to change our modus operandi, we focus more on what we stand to lose rather than how we might benefit. In fact, we weigh losses (whether real or imagined) twice as heavily as gains! It’s an irrational and lopsided comparison that makes us cling to our status quo approach in pursuing a quantum leap.

2.  You’re accustomed to your present way of operating. It’s your comfort zone. It gives you a sense of security. “Trying differently” means leaving the status quo and venturing into the unknown where you must deal with ambiguity and take new risks. That causes uncertainty, which creates doubt, anxiety, and fear. The status quo is psychologically more appealing.

3.  It takes initiative, effort, and guts to chase some big ambition. Naturally, inertia resists that kind of investment, and inertia has enormous power over your behavior and decisions. Even if you’re dissatisfied with your present situation, inertia may cause you to stick with the status quo.

The Secret to Accelerated Liftoff

4.  Don’t try to sneak up on the status quo by just tweaking your present way of operating. Attack with a direct, full-force frontal assault adopt a truly different game plan. Think big, aim for the fences, and put your heart into it!

The longer you allow yourself to remain stuck in a position that doesn’t seriously challenge you, the less likely you’ll be able to leave it.

Grant

Ai News and tips:

MIT Researchers Have Taught A.I. to Self-Improve! - Oh No!

The Rundown: MIT researchers just developed Self-Adapting LLMs (SEAL), a framework that enables large language models to teach and improve on their own by creating their training data and instructions for self-updates.

The details

SEAL allows models to generate their own "self-edits" — instructions for creating synthetic data and setting parameters to update their own weights.

It learns through trial-and-error via a reinforcement learning loop, rewarding the model for generating self-edits that lead to better performance.

In knowledge tasks, the AI learned more effectively from its own notes than from learning materials generated by the much larger GPT-4.1.

The system also dramatically improved at puzzle-solving tasks, jumping from 0% with standard methods to 72.5% after learning how to train itself effectively.

Why it matters: Self-improving AI is frequently mentioned as a potential lead-in to the leap toward superintelligence. While SEAL (and other research frameworks like Sakana’s DGM) aren’t there yet, they point to a scary but exciting future where models can continue upgrading (exponentially) on their own, going beyond human design.

Finally:

There’s been a lot of talk about when Super-intelligent A.I. will emerge however to me this is the actual turning point that has now made it the inevitable, who knows how this will end!

Grant

So we've come to the end for this month, this newsletter stuff is all new to me so I'd love to know what you think, want more or less of, some of your own stories and anything else you'd like me to add or any questions I can help you with.

Until next time remember "A Goal is a Dream With a Deadline!" G.D.

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Grant Dowsett is a Business & Mindset Coach also working as a Consultant with the Proctor Gallagher Institute he has been helping his clients create the business & life of their dreams. Grant who is intensely growth and goal orientated helps individuals, groups and companies discover their deepest desires, reach their full potential and achieve their personal & professional goals faster than ever before!

If you’d like to create the business & life you’ve been dreaming of contact Grant by phone: +61 418 544 322 or Email at: grant@empreneur.com or if you would like to see if you qualify for a complimentary “Business Success Blueprint” call go here: https://tidycal.com/grantdowsett/free-success-blueprint-session