Shortcuts can get you in trouble if you don’t make yourself an expert first.
Yesterday I wrote about how doing things the hard way is often the best way in the long run. Some things are necessarily complex if you do them right — and if they’re not done right, they don’t help you succeed.
That doesn’t mean you should avoid an easier path if it truly gives you the same result. Or that you shouldn’t look for better ways to do things. It just means the goal should be to get it right first — then evolve from there.
Like I said yesterday: hard is slow, but slow leads to smooth. Smooth leads to fast. And fast leads to easy.
A little while after I wrote that post, I read something that said the same thing in fewer words:
Efficiency is great, but effectiveness comes first.
If you trade effectiveness for efficiency, you’re playing a losing game.
There’s something new posted here most days. I try to stay ahead so I don’t have to write daily, but I write these myself. Maybe not the most efficient system — but I’ve found the more I write, the faster and better I get. And the more I write, the more ideas I have.
If efficiency were the goal, I could hand the writing off to AI. But then you’d be reading “7 Ways to Prepare Your Property for Sale” and “Top 10 Home Staging Tips.” Clickbait.
You wouldn’t be here if that’s what I did.
That’s not to say AI tools can’t be useful. Proofreading, formatting, maybe. But you’d still better read the final product yourself and make sure it says what you meant.
And don’t trust it with facts. It can make up some things that are… creative.
And for sure don’t use it to write legal briefs. Ask the attorney who did that and ended up submitting fake case law.
I don’t know what the future holds, but for now AI is fine for handling some basic tasks.
Anything that requires accuracy or precision? You’d better check it yourself.
Which means you’d better be an expert in whatever you’re using it for.
And how do you get to be an expert? By doing the slow, hard work — at least at first.
Efficiency is great. But not if it compromises effectiveness.
PS – All this is really just a long-winded way of saying that while what I do might look easy, it isn’t. It’s taken decades of slow, hard work to get to this point.
It’s not rocket science — but it’s not easy either.
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