MINDSET
The way humans work with AI
In this sphere, you will find key principles to help raise awareness that AI necessitates a profound change in the relationship between humans and work. With the increasing intelligence of systems, it is no longer sufficient to simply execute standard and repetitive processes at work. Such processes will simply be automated by AI. Everyone must then formalize their knowledge clearly and precisely. Humans, therefore, need to enhance their work capabilities through innovation, creativity, critical thinking, and sharing. It is essential to break out of the rat race and cultivate a culture of intrapreneurship and interpreneurship. Without the right mindset at work, AI will replace positions where the added value becomes low.
The WASI process
WASI stands for: Write, Analyze, Share and Innovate.
How to escape the intellectual rat race that hinders your progress in projects and may become fatal with the rise of AI? Being in the rat race is like going around in circles in your work and life without seeing how to improve your future. When you let time pass without taking control, you end up no longer fighting for a better future and merely hanging on day by day. You work somewhat like a robot and distract yourself with social media and easily accessible leisure activities.
This procrastination is a poison that prevents us from building beautiful things and progressing harmoniously. To overcome it, you need to find reasons to act and even an obligation to take action. I try to provide some guidance on how to achieve this in my book “The META-Entrepreneur,” but here I want to emphasize the opportunity AI offers to help you escape the rat race.
But be careful, to fully utilize your AI assistants, you will need to learn to write with high precision. This is the only way for the AI to truly understand you and respond with relevance and high quality. You will also need to develop a critical mind to analyze the AI’s responses and ask it to redo, adjust, correct, clarify, rephrase, complete, and justify the results. This cycle of writing and critical analysis will significantly increase your intellectual capacity. It’s the opposite effect of TikTok, which tends to dull the mind.
It’s quite simple to understand, and it boils down to two principles:
- Firstly, to use AI effectively, you will need to completely take control of your way of thinking and working. You can no longer be passive and perform tasks like a robot. This applies to all professions, even if you are a software developer. You will need to think more before acting to better understand what you are doing so you can formalize it in writing and then use it to train your personal AI assistants. You will then do this collectively, following your managers’ guidelines.
- Secondly, you are no longer alone in facing your anxieties and blockages when moving forward and taking action. The more you enrich your AI assistants, the more they will help you find positive solutions to create your projects and improve your working conditions. As your AI practice improves, you will also be able to find AI assistants on the market that suit you best. No discipline or field of knowledge is inaccessible to you thanks to AI. You have access to a powerful intellectual force for just a few dollars a month with ChatGPT 4o. There’s no need to wait for your company to provide you with this tool; you can use it at home with your own data.
That’s not all! Writing and analysis will also allow you to discover new things and therefore innovate. Your creative intelligence will unlock, and you will then leave the rat race to become an augmented person thanks to AI. Finally, if you work in a team, you can share your knowledge with others to further increase your capacity to innovate.
Ultimately, the Write, Analyze, Share, and Innovate (WASI) cycle is the key to unlocking the infernal cage of the rat race.
Take this quick knowledge test
Question: knowing that the planets are round, can you explain why? Many people do not have the answer. This king of hole in knowledge is common and the quality of knowledge is poor. It does not allow a reliable and fast analysis.
Answer: the reason for the shape of the planets is the impact of gravitational forces. It is then necessary to learn how gravity works. Thus, the intelligent accumulation of knowledge avoids fragmenting understanding.
Analyze + Accumulate
Regardless of your role (whether you’re an intrapreneur, entrepreneur, investor, athlete, artist, etc.) and the nature of your projects, you can organize your knowledge with the META framework. This framework assists you in accumulating crucial knowledge. Over time, it enables you to analyze more swiftly and saliently before taking action, thereby enhancing your chances of success.
If you are a manager, this knowledge management practice is also important for your employees for inclusivity and careers management. If you are an investor, you can increase the quality of your investments by instilling the META framework in your executive and operational teams. The META framework is based on a simple starting concept: storing the most important knowledge in the four elements. It is not useful to store all the subjects of knowledge in bulk, but rather to search deep within your knowledge for the rules that are most fundamental and universal. These are your meta-rules. By doing so, you build a tool to increase your chances of success, and also an effective communication tool to better involve your teams.
Write down your meta-rules
MOTION (Move)
Regardless of your field of expertise or your project, it is important to clarify your “raison d’être” in order not to lose sight on the journey to success. It involves being clear about the core values that motivate you to make the needed efforts over a long period of time to achieve success. For example, an entrepreneur uses his social background as a drive for success which is more concrete than a simple motivation. Or an athlete who is not satisfied with the mere pleasure of just performing his sport and sets himself an obligation to outperform. Regardless of his level of fitness, he will find the strength to train without procrastination or excuses.
If you struggle on a project, it could possibly be that your Motion is not strong enough.
You and your teams perhaps loose the sense of long-term action, which leads to a degradation of value creation. As I mentioned earlier, powerful and fast analysis relies on intelligent knowledge accumulation. This principle is difficult to maintain without a clear project’s values and an obligation to act.
With MOTION, you clarify your reasons for success and the DNA of your domain of expertise, which makes you strong. You then act with more harmony and tenacity, for yourself and your teams.
ENGAGEMENT (Act)
The META framework is not a recipe with steps and actions to follow in order to succeed. It would be difficult to describe and specify to certain contexts. In addition, luck is often a factor in success and it is not possible to take it into account in a method.
Thus, the objective is to identify only the fundamental and universal actions, whose poor execution could jeopardize your entire project or domain of expertise.
Fundamental actions are ones that do not tolerate any error and universal actions are independent on your specific context or on luck.
These are meta-rules that guide you towards success. They are also useful for your communication and knowledge sharing within your teams. The better your fundamental and universal actions are understood, the more the support you can receive.
Take time to strengthen your ENGAGEMENT by finding the fundamental and universal actions in the set of actions you need to take. Having a clear understanding of what is essential to do, you are sure of your acts.
TREASURY (Finance)
Money is usually the necessary condition for action, this is obvious in business, but also in project management in general. Depending on your level of responsibility, you will have to deal with the subject of financing yourself or with the collaboration of stakeholders such as your financial department or investors.
For an entrepreneur, the balance between personal financial need and professional profitability is not easy to manage. To achieve this equilibrium, it is not only a question of controlling the financial need, but also of valuing the financial rewards from your works in order to better manage the financial flows.
Therefore, a simple calculation of the return on investment is not sufficient to reveal the value of assets creation, it must be extended with assets valuation (intangible and tangible assets).
The objective is to establish a roadmap that balances the need for financing with a progressive assessment of the company or project. The stakes are high for entrepreneurs who want to keep control of their business instead of ceding it to investors.
In the case of a project or domain of expertise, the value analysis aligned with profitability thresholds should involve the decision-makers and business departments. You need to create an entrepreneurial spirit in your organization (intrapreneurship, interpreneurship). Project leaders must pay attention to value analysis and use it as a steering and communication tool.
By strengthening your TREASURY, you go beyond the calculation of a return on investment by taking into account assets valuation. The financing cycle is then adapted progressively to business growth.
ASSURANCE (Protect)
This element of the META Framework is about protecting your assets.
In business, the shareholders’ agreement and the share subscription contract describe the rules of operation between shareholders and investors. Without a good understanding of this element, the actors involved could take actions against the collective interest. In this case, conflicts can occur without a framework to facilitate their resolution. Often neglected at the time of the creation of the company or the start-up of a project, it is then too late to take an effective interest in it later on. The stronger the control of your Assurance on the first day of business, the less you risk impairment loss or even the failure of your project because of disagreements with your stakeholders. Similarly, the conditions for launching a process to sell the business must be specified early enough in the value creation cycle. Without anticipating this, the entrepreneur runs the risk of being trapped in the capital of his company without any hope of adding value to it and exiting in a winning manner.
Your ASSURANCE is carefully described for projects or domain of expertise in a similar way to that explained for entrepreneurship. It is then necessary to specify in writing the governance with the rules of conflict resolution, and the protection of the assets that belong to and are created by the project.
By setting up your ASSURANCE at the creation of your company or at the start of your project and domain of expertise, you avoid the risk of value destruction.
The symbolism
MOTION (Move) - Biology
To clarify the purpose of the activity or knowledge area.
It is about exposing its DNA. The symbol of the molecule that carries the hereditary genetic information is used. Each strand of DNA corresponds to a fundamental and universal rule contained in the element Motion.
The color blue symbolizes reliability and truth. It expresses the solidity of the Motion element in order to find the values and the raison d’être of your project deep inside yourself.
ENGAGEMENT (Act) - Physics
To illuminate the starting line to success, thanks to the DNA of Motion.
This first light is the original beam that enters the prism of Engagement. It then breaks down into as many new beams as there are fundamental and universal rules to follow in order to succeed. The symbol of the prism is therefore used.
The color red represents power and energy. It symbolizes the strength of the Engagement element to take action in a positive and sustainable way.
TREASURY (Finance) - Mathematics
To discuss the financing plan and the calculations of assets’ valuation.
The sign is structured with internal segments to establish its strength. They represent the fundamental and universal rules that form the content of the Treasury element.
The green color represents the financial dimension. It symbolizes the contribution of the Treasury element to synchronize the financing cycle with the sustainable growth of the business over the long term.
ASSURANCE (Protect) - Chemistry
To address the legal protection and governance of the domain and assets.
It is akin to practicing a high intensity physical activity. The effort is hard and may hurt, but afterwards the body and mind feel better. In other words, the field of knowledge is strengthened by the element Assurance. The chemical symbol used is a part of that of endorphin, which is the pleasure hormone produced especially during intense physical activity. The acid amine as parts of endorphin: valine (below) and isoleucine (above) are retained. They represent respectively the rules of governance between stakeholders and the rules of asset protection.
The orange color illustrates the ambition to succeed. It represents the rules of the Assurance element to protect the business from its inception and throughout its growth.