Embracing Change and Self-Belief: Insights from Bruce Randall on “Authentic Achievements”
In a recent episode of ‘Authentic Achievements,’ a podcast dedicated to exploring personal growth and the intersection of belief systems and technology in business, host Kim-Adele engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Bruce Randall, a seasoned expert in business development with over three decades of experience across various sectors, including AI, software, and consulting. Their discussion delves into Bruce’s journey, the importance of self-belief, and the transformative potential of AI in business. This blog post will summarise the key insights and actionable advice shared during the episode, providing a comprehensive guide for listeners and readers alike.
Bruce’s Journey and Personal Growth
Bruce Randall’s career is a testament to the power of introspection and personal growth. He reflects on his journey, noting that the first decade was a learning phase. At the same time, the subsequent years were marked by significant personal development through practices like meditation and becoming a Reiki master. This inward journey allowed him to align his beliefs with his actions, leading to greater success in his professional life.
Key Takeaways:
Introspection is Crucial: Bruce underlines the paramount importance of looking inward to achieve external success. This involves understanding and reshaping one’s belief systems, a powerful tool that puts you in control of your personal growth journey.
Belief Codes: These are ingrained beliefs formed in childhood that can hinder progress if not addressed. They are the core beliefs that shape our actions and decisions. Reprogramming these beliefs to align with one’s goals is essential for personal and professional growth.
Actionable Advice:
Practice Meditation: Incorporate meditation into your daily routine to foster self-awareness and clarity.
Identify and Reprogram Belief Codes: Reflect on your childhood beliefs and assess whether they serve your current goals. Work on reprogramming any limiting beliefs.
The Power of Belief and Intentionality
The conversation shifts to the power of belief in shaping outcomes. Kim and Bruce agree that what we believe to be true often becomes our reality. Bruce shares his experiences of how belief has driven his success and emphasises the importance of intentionality in belief.
Key Takeaways:
Belief Shapes Reality: Our beliefs significantly influence our actions and outcomes.
Intentionality Matters: Being intentional about your beliefs and actions can lead to more favourable outcomes.
Actionable Advice:
Evaluate Your Beliefs: Regularly assess whether your beliefs serve you positively or negatively.
Set Intentional Goals: Ensure your goals align with your core values and beliefs.
Embracing Change and Understanding AI
Kim and Bruce address the fear surrounding AI and technological advancements. Bruce explains that AI is an enabler that can help businesses make informed decisions. He encourages listeners to shift their perspective from fear to curiosity.
Key Takeaways:
AI as an Enabler: AI can empower individuals and organisations by providing valuable insights and enhancing decision-making.
Shift from Fear to Curiosity: Embracing AI with curiosity rather than fear can lead to a better understanding and utilisation of the technology.
Actionable Advice:
Educate Yourself on AI: Take courses or attend workshops to understand AI and its potential applications.
Start Small with AI: Bruce advises to begin with low-risk, high-yield projects to familiarise yourself with AI’s capabilities. This approach can help you feel reassured and less intimidated by the potential of AI.
Starting the Journey with AI
Bruce stresses the importance of taking the first step in integrating AI into business. He advises organisations to start small and warns that procrastination can lead to missed opportunities.
Key Takeaways:
Take the First Step: Starting small can help organisations understand AI’s potential without significant risk.
Avoid Procrastination: Delaying the integration of AI can result in falling behind competitors.
Actionable Advice:
Identify Low-Risk Projects: Start with projects that have a high potential for success and low risk. These could be tasks that are repetitive, time-consuming, or require a high level of accuracy, where AI can significantly improve efficiency and productivity.
Create a Roadmap: Develop a clear plan for integrating AI into your business operations.
Lessons Learned and the Importance of Perspective
Bruce shares the greatest lesson he has learned throughout his career: the importance of understanding different perspectives. This ability to empathise and communicate effectively is crucial for finding common ground and developing solutions.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Different Perspectives: Empathy and effective communication are essential for collaboration and problem-solving.
Align Goals Within Organisations: Open communication and a common purpose are vital for organisational success.
Actionable Advice:
Practice Active Listening: Make a conscious effort to understand others’ viewpoints.
Foster Open Communication: Encourage open dialogue within your organisation to align goals and foster collaboration.
Final Thoughts
In this enlightening episode of “Authentic Achievements,” Kim and Bruce Randall explore the intersection of personal growth, belief systems, and the integration of AI in business. Their conversation encourages listeners to embrace change, confront fears, and foster a culture of understanding and collaboration. By reshaping beliefs and aligning goals, individuals and organisations can unlock their full potential and confidently navigate the evolving landscape of business.
Call to Action:
Reflect on Your Beliefs: Take time to introspect and assess your belief systems.
Embrace AI: Educate yourself and start small to integrate AI into your business.
Foster Collaboration: Encourage open communication and empathy within your organisation.
By following these insights and actionable advice, you can embark on a journey of personal and professional growth, leveraging the power of belief and technology to achieve authentic success.
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Kim-Adele Randall 00:00:07 Hello and welcome to today’s episode of Authentic Achievements, where it’s my very great delight to be joined by the fabulous Bruce Randall. Bruce, welcome.
Bruce Randall 00:00:18 Thank you. Kim, I appreciate being here.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:00:20 I’m I’m really appreciate you being here, too. And I’m so looking forward to our conversation and should just point out before I go any further, we’re actually not related, albeit we do have the same surname. So this was one of our first interactions. But let me tell you a bit more about Bruce before we get started. so Bruce brings over three decades of extensive experience in business development across various sectors, including software, software consulting, cloud computing, AI applications, digital advertising, manufacturing and international markets. With a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives in business technology markets. Bruce’s expertise lies in making critical strategic decisions, executing growth plans and fostering business expansion. Currently, Bruce collaborates with companies to provide AI understanding from a thought leader position and serves on the advisory boards of Kimberlite Token and is president of the Polk Asset Glen Condo Association.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:01:20 In these capacities, he actively works to enhance shareholder value and really start to drive those organizations. But what what a journey, Bruce. I mean, three decades and such a variety of kind of areas and organizations, could you bring that to life for us a little bit more, please?
Bruce Randall 00:01:40 Sure. The three decades, I say that it took me a decade, to start to figure it out. And then the other two decades, I started meditating and I became a Reiki master. And then from then on, I improved to where I am today. So it’s been quite an interesting journey by going inside and creating the results outside.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:02:04 I love that I think we do often have to go on the on that journey into ourselves before we can go on the journey to become ourselves. We have to find it first to to then live it. But it took me longer than ten years to work that out. I’ll be honest, I was I was a bit of a slow learner, because I kept looking for these external things that were going to make the difference.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:02:27 And until I’d done that, the journey inward and made that connection. I was just a lifelong learner that wasn’t putting anything into practice. have you found that having, you know, having gone in and done that and obviously becoming a Reiki master and that as well, taking it to that next level, that you’re now much more in alignment and therefore things become easier.
Bruce Randall 00:02:49 I am in alignment because because I figured out that, you know, we have things that we believe about ourselves. We’ve been taught at a young age. I call them belief codes. And when we get older, we start to say, why do I continue to repeat these patterns? And then if you look into it, you find their teachings from a young age that come through and understanding that you can reprogram what your belief codes are to be what you want versus what was taught at a young age. And we have the ability to do that. And when we do that, we understand that we can create our future and that we have to believe in ourself.
Bruce Randall 00:03:29 Because if you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t do a thing. You have to have that behind you. And then when you when you look at the goals you want and you and you work for those goals, you can create the behaviors that will get you there. And if you believe them, you’ve done that. And I’ve proven that over the years.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:03:48 It’s so true. I often think the most important thing is belief is what we believe to be true becomes true. So if we believe we can’t, we can’t. And if we believe we can, we can. we’ve got to we’ve got to work on that, that belief piece first, haven’t we, so that we can go. Is this belief serving me? You know, is it actually doing what I’d like it to do, or is it just going to drive me to do what I don’t want it to do? and, and that takes conscious effort, doesn’t it, to, to be intentional with that belief and, and then changing it if it’s not working.
Bruce Randall 00:04:24 Yeah. And I’ve had a couple experiences that that have proven that to me. And, and the most recent 1 in 2020 is one that has created a path that is better than I could have ever imagined. And it’s just because I put it in place. I believed I could do it with, you know, with the decades of experience. And then it just unfolded better than I could ever believe. And that has created the intent to propagate, love and propagate a win win. And that has served me very well in the business community. So if you if you, if you improve yourself, it comes through in every area.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:05:12 I love that it is it is so true. And and I think looking at that, you know, I always look at, you know, how do how do I leave people better than I found them. You know, I often will say to people my, my best leadership advice came from when I was hairdressing when, you know, they taught you how to listen, to understand what the person really wants, to help them to try and achieve it, and to have them leave you feeling the best version of themselves.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:05:38 And I kind of carried that into the rest of the rest of my life and the rest of my business life, which is if I can leave people feeling better as a result of the interaction that I’m, then I’m doing a good job, then I’m doing something positive and that. And once you do that, actually it has that ripple, doesn’t it? It has that ripple into all all of the areas. And you know, in particularly in, in the business world, I think sadly for, for a period, it didn’t have that kind of culture or ethos very much. It would be what’s in it for me, kind of peace. And then the expectation is that everybody you come across is going to be thinking about what’s in it for them, instead of actually, how do we co-create, how do we collaborate, how do we add value to each other? And that’s why I think it’s such a welcome approach when people do approach it in that way, because like, oh, how lovely, it’s quite.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:06:35 I’m going to enjoy this interaction instead of, you know, it’s going to feel like hard work. And I think, you know, as things as things have evolved and moved on and, and particularly with the, vast, Advances and changes that we’ve had in technology and what it can. What it can do for us. I think it’s made our interpersonal interactions even more important. would you would you agree? And obviously, you know so much more about this area than I do.
Bruce Randall 00:07:06 I do, in fact, AI is one of those areas that has really enabled people and enabled businesses to make better decisions based on what I can do, because AI is an enabler. It will give you information to help you make better decisions, and I will put information in front of you for trends that you may not have noticed yet, but I because if it’s intricacies can say, hey, this might be happening now, and that allows better decisions and people to be better informed. And it’s something that’s, you know, a lot of people are afraid of it a little bit, mostly because they don’t understand it.
Bruce Randall 00:07:45 There’s been a lot of hype around it, but when you get right down to it. AI is something that that can help people once they understand what it can do for them.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:07:57 Yeah, I think it is. Often it’s our fear of the unknown. That right is is the thing that holds us back, isn’t it? we don’t if we don’t understand something and we come at it from a position of fear, then we’re never going to look to learn about it. And I guess for me, you know, one of my I personally think it’s one of my greatest traits, but for other people, it might be one of the biggest frustrations is I’m passionately curious. So I want to learn more. I want to know more. I want to understand the things I don’t understand. I certainly didn’t learn from that. Curiosity kills the cat that my parents told me about. I’m still going to be curious. because for me, that’s the you know, that there the bits that are intriguing. but that does mean sometimes facing that, facing the things where we have to go.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:08:43 I don’t I don’t know. Yeah. I don’t know about that. I don’t understand it. But I’m going to learn about it and I’m going to see how how can it help me? How can you know? How can it, allow me to have an even better, even broader, impact? but I guess for, for a lot of people, AI is one of those areas where they are slightly afraid of it because they don’t know what it is, and that fear of what does it, what does it mean for them, and how do they, you know, how how do they implement that into their organization? So what advice would you give for people when they’re considering AI right now?
Bruce Randall 00:09:23 Well, I would I would advise people to to change your perspective on it instead of fear because it’s just software, right, to have that passion and interest in it. And you’re going to get further that way instead of, you know, fear based. But I tell people that, you know, the the world is changing, and I took a course on AI and machine learning and building data science solutions, and I got a lot out of that because I understood what what it could do.
Bruce Randall 00:09:56 And if you take a course to enable yourself to understand what AI is and how you can better work with it, you’re going to be one of the people that adds value later on, and you’re going to feel good about that because you understand versus coming at it from a fear base. And with all the hype that’s been around AI, it’s hard to really understand what it is until you dig down and and get the facts on it. And I mean, I’ve never been afraid of software. I’m not the best. I mean, I don’t write software, but I understand it and I can explain it to anybody. And that’s really the gift that I have where I can get people to understand brain computer interface. I can get people to understand the back end of AI, I the probabilities. And it’s that understanding that’s going to enable everybody in the future to propagate with AI instead of being afraid of it.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:10:52 I love that I think you’re right. I think some, you know, learning about the things that that scare us is a positive thing because we you know, I often liken it to, children’s nightmares, you know, and they think there’s a monster under the bed.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:11:06 And actually, when you go and look, it’s not it’s a discarded toy or some something else, but you’ve got to go and look at it. You’ve got to go and understand it, haven’t you? And go, okay, let’s, let’s I guess feel the fear and do it anyway. Go go go. go and address that thing and go. Well, okay. Might scare me. It might make me nervous, but I’m going to I’m going to go and learn more so that I can make a more informed choice on, should I still be scared of this or. Actually, now I understand it better. Is it something that isn’t to be feared, but to be embraced and and that it can actually, I think with all things, you know, we, sometimes a nervous of change, you know, it’s like anything that’s going to involve a change we know is going to be uncomfortable because change is uncomfortable. You know, I liken it to I get people to say, right, cross your arms for me.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:12:00 Now unfold them and fold them again the other way. And some people can do it. And some people are like, I’ve got to do that. Even though it’s like it’s just by my arm. Sure. And that’s because we’ve got a way. We naturally do it. We’ve got a way that feels comfortable to us. And when you ask people afterwards, yeah, yeah. How did it feel? Uncomfortable. I think about it. Yeah. I didn’t know what I was doing. I had to really I was like, okay, that’s just what change feels like. But you did it. You survived it. You come up with the idea that you can get there. We’ve just got to get comfortable with the uncomfortable moments, haven’t we, with the fact that, yes, it’ll be uncomfortable while. I don’t know, but when I learn, then I will know. And then I’ll come out the other side and I will be confident and comfortable that I understand it to the level that I need to.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:12:46 because again, you know, we don’t all need to suddenly go and be able to code these things and work out how we design them. It’s more how how do we incorporate them into our every day, and how do we understand the art of the possible? I guess is is, for me, one of the things that I’ve always tried, you know, tried to consider when, you know, when I’m thinking about the things that are new. But when you when you’re working with organizations and they’re thinking about kind of these things and particularly obviously you’re doing this advisory board level as well, do what are the number one questions that you find come up for organizations when they’re, you know, when they’re thinking through their approach to to things like AI and how they’re going to introduce that to their people.
Bruce Randall 00:13:37 The biggest question is how can I get AI to work with me and for me? And they want to maintain control. And everybody’s different. Every business is different. Even in the same vertical. The business is a different.
Bruce Randall 00:13:53 So you have to listen to what it means to that business and, and frame it to something that they will understand. Find something that will work for them that’s low risk and high yield. And then start there, get them familiar with it and then build as they progress with it. Because AI is an enabler. And I tell people that if you don’t start today, then then the companies that that do start today are going to be in front of you and you’re going to be looking from behind, which is never an advantageous position. Right? So you have to start somewhere. Anywhere is good as long as you start.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:14:37 I love that you do have to start. That can sometimes. I mean, it sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And yet that can be the thing that that we, procrastinate on and we kick the can down the road, and I will get to it. I’ll get to it. It’s weird. But you say sometimes you’ve just got to grab the bull by the horns and just start and go.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:14:56 It doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter where you start as long as you start. Because every step you take is a step closer to understanding, isn’t it? And to gaining that into gaining that knowledge, into gaining that insight. so in your in your journey so far, what would you say has been the greatest lesson that you’ve learned?
Bruce Randall 00:15:16 The greatest lesson that I’ve learned is to is to look at both sides of an argument. And, and it’s it’s not just saying that, but it takes a lot of work to look at the other side and put your beliefs behind you and actually understand the other side. And once you can do that, you’re so much better prepared to come at it to provide a solution. But that’s it’s really not as easy as it sounds because, you know, our egos get involved and we think we’re right all the time. Right? Or often. And we usually think, oh, they’re doing it the wrong way. But until you understand the motivations and the thought process, that may be right for them, but it’s not right for you.
Bruce Randall 00:16:02 So, you know, wrong is is probably the wrong word to use. It’s just what’s right for them and what’s right for you. And let’s see if we can get what’s right together.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:16:12 I love that I often say that there’s actually three, three versions of the truth. Your truth, my truth and the actual truth because. Right. Our emotional response 24 times faster than our thinking brain. So something happens and we make it mean something. But what I’ve made it mean might be very different to what you’ve made it mean. And so we’re coming at it from a position of being truthful. But when you look at what’s happening without the emotion, there might be a third version. But I love that whole being able to to consider it from from that space. And, you know, one of the things, that I learned many years ago was about learning not to be so wedded to having to be right and recognizing that just because I’m right doesn’t make you wrong, and just because you’re right doesn’t make me wrong.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:16:56 We might be looking at it from a different perspective, or looking at it from a from a different requirement of the outcome. And once we seek to understand that, we now have all of the information to be able to make better choices and to find a way forward that works for everybody. and you’re right, it does. Then it does, then open doors, doesn’t it, for you to be able to do new things to, to, to be able to, to kind of develop in areas that you wouldn’t have done before. As an organization, because we’ve got away from this having to be right. all of the time.
Bruce Randall 00:17:32 And it’s it’s about perspective. So, you know, if one person is preparing for snowstorm and one person is not, they think that guy is crazy. He’s doing all this stuff. Why is he doing that? And the other guy says he’s crazy because he’s not doing anything. But one guy knows about the storm. One guy doesn’t. So once they both learn about it, then they more align in what they’re trying to do.
Bruce Randall 00:17:54 It’s similar to that.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:17:55 Yeah, that that reminds me of, hearing a kind of story from a friend of mine, Mark woods, who’s a Paralympic, swimmer. And he was he was talking about when they’d gone to the Olympics, the third this first year, he said, and watched the faces of it. And they they got silver, and he she saw them get out, saw the team get out. Two of them were elated and two of them were devastated. Yeah. And and he said it made us realize when we played it back that we hadn’t got a common goal. So the reason half the team was devastated and half the team was elated was because the half of the team getting a medal was what they were going for. For the other half of the team, getting the gold was what they’re going for, right? So that might sound like really nuanced, but it made such a massive difference. And he said, once we realized actually our perspectives were different because our goal was different and therefore our outcome was different.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:18:55 And then he shared the video for years later when they went on and they got gold, and you saw how elated all four and. No. But actually what we realized was, it was a great lesson for us in that we weren’t we we assumed we had common purpose. but the reality was there was it was nuanced. There was, you know, we weren’t all driving to the same piece, and therefore we were going to have a very different emotional response to it. And we see that all the time, don’t we? In, in life and in and particularly in business we do.
Bruce Randall 00:19:31 And that’s that’s why, you know, communicating and seeing both sides, you can quickly, quickly, quickly get to that common place versus going for a while in different places and not realizing it until you have an event. Right. And and that’s really important because in any business, as long as you as long as you’re on the same page and you have a common goal, which is your point, then you’re going to do better than the ones that don’t have a common goal, the ones that are disparate.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:20:00 Yeah, well, because you’ve got that alignment, haven’t you? You’ve got that piece. And actually we all know we know where we’re going. So therefore we can, we can now head in that direction. We can now be making, making our choices based on does that get us closer to where we want to be or further away? Whereas if we’ve all got different goals right, and then they could be pulling, pulling as each in in different directions and you lose the combined power, don’t you, of of that, of using all of the strengths that are available to you and all of the resource that’s available to you.
Bruce Randall 00:20:35 Yeah. And I think when you when you have a common goal, everybody’s energy is going in the right direction. And that combines to a more powerful force, as you know, as you can see, than, than two that are going in different directions. And that all makes a difference because we have personal power. And when we use that, we can get much further than if we don’t think about it or we don’t use it.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:20:59 But it’s it’s so true. And I think often we aren’t intentional with it. You know, I, I remember years ago, I was head of sales at the time, and it was my big eye opener into just how impactful personally you could be, because if I walked around and for any reason didn’t have the world’s biggest smile on my face, people panic and they’d be there like, come away off the number. And I’m like, no, I just just fell out with my husband. It’s like, yes, I’m so sorry. So. So I realized that actually what I needed to do was, was constantly walking and saying, are you smiling? Do you look happy? Because if not, you’re making everybody else nervous, right? And, but it but it was one of those eye opening moments that was like, okay. so let’s have a look and see other people and go, well, actually, each of us has an ability to have a massive impact on other people in their day and their experience.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:22:00 And and if we’re doing it intentionally, then it’s usually going to be significantly more positive than if we’re unintentional. And therefore the response is, is going to is going to be haphazard, isn’t it?
Bruce Randall 00:22:13 Right. That’s correct. Because intention is key in that. And we you know, we may want something that we want because it’s it’s new, it’s big, it’s shiny. You know, whatever the reason. But if we want it for the good reasons, right. For for the the value reasons versus the shiny nice reasons, you’re more likely to get it because that’s more reasonable and that’s more in line with who we are than to be flashy and big and, you know, look at me type of thing. So those those things make a difference when you when you’re going for something. And I’ve found this over the years and that’s why I’ve, I’ve gotten better at, at, at creating the future for myself. And that’s, that’s actually how the, you know, the book that I’ve got formulated because I never thought I would write a book, I just never in a million years.
Bruce Randall 00:23:04 And all of a sudden it just happened. And I said, oh my God, I think I have something here, you know, what do I do with it?
Kim-Adele Randall 00:23:12 I love that, and that’s due to be out, isn’t it? And is it just later on this year, December.
Bruce Randall 00:23:17 It’s. Yeah, late this year. Early next year. It’s it’s the first book I’ve written. So I’ve, I’m running into all the first book challenges.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:23:26 It’s true. I mean, I remember, I was very lucky in the fact that my my first book, a lot of those challenges went by in a, in a whirlwind because I, I co-authored, and I co-authored in the, literally on day one of lockdown, I got a phone call when the world was in chaos, and I got a phone call and they were like, Kim, we’re going to write a book on remote working. And, you know, you’ve been leading remote teams for years. Would you write a chapter? And I was like, no, I can’t even write.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:23:58 You can’t write a chapter. So ridiculous. and then like, go on, what else are you going to do? You’re like, you’re locked in with a two year old. And I was like, fair point. So yeah, so I did. but the reason I say all of the challenges got taken away was they literally gave us five days to write our chapter. and then they published on. So day one of lockdown, we were told we could be part of it. We had we had until the till at the end of that week. So five days, to write it then, then it went obviously to be edited, etc. and it went live. It was published live on day ten of lockdown.
Bruce Randall 00:24:32 Oh my God.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:24:33 And on, on day 12, I was, I was live, in my pyjamas in the garden on BBC Radio London, talking about becoming an international bestselling author in six countries in lockdown. I don’t really know how it happened in a blur. but having now gone on to to write other books, I get the kind of the challenges, that, you know, I had a very unique experience for that one.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:25:03 Yes. It hasn’t been replicated.
Bruce Randall 00:25:05 I think there’s.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:25:07 You know, that there it’s not just the idea and the concept is, it’s that it’s then pulling that into a cohesive story, that and that, that it flows and makes sense because we know what we know so well that sometimes we might put it in an order that when we’re sharing it with somebody else, they’re like. Why isn’t that the other way around?
Bruce Randall 00:25:31 Yeah.
Bruce Randall 00:25:33 What are you trying to say?
Kim-Adele Randall 00:25:35 How do we pull those? But it’s it’s I mean, it’s such a great experience to go through, isn’t it. In, in kind of right, writing that down, realizing how much you’ve learned about something and having that opportunity to be able to share that, to help other people and learn it without having to have the this is worth experience that that you have to learn it in the first instance. Is that one of the reasons that drove you to write the book?
Bruce Randall 00:26:02 Yeah. You know, I saw I saw a video, a press conference with, Neuralink and, and they showed how the, the person who got the first chip could think how to move the mouse on the computer, and it would move.
Bruce Randall 00:26:18 And he became really good at chess and and gaming and so forth. And I said, well, that’s telekinesis. I mean, I can put a piece of paper on my desk on a pin and make it spin around, right. But I can’t control the mouse on the computer. So I said, that’s pretty amazing. And then one thing led to another, and I wrote an emotional story for course I was in, and I got a lot of hits on it. And I said, why does everybody like this? And when we had a zoom call, everybody told me why they liked it. And then another bell went off and I decided to write a book because brain computer interface, that’s something that that can be, can go in the wrong direction in the future if we don’t put guardrails on it.
Bruce Randall 00:27:07 Yeah.
Bruce Randall 00:27:08 And it, it, it crosses the bridge of, you know, telekinesis. Because if he can think this, even though it’s from a chip, and sometimes the mouse moves before he even has the thought and it moves in the right direction.
Bruce Randall 00:27:23 I said, if they can do that, then what else can it do? Because we’re globally, we’re pretty much a divided, you know, society. And if if I can help people flip the switch from from going from individual thinking to group thinking instead of what’s best for me to what’s best for all. And if everybody did that the next day, the world would be such a better place. And and it’s it’s a point where we have a choice and I’ve, I’ve lived through that. We have a choice of how we want to go it every day. Do you want to go at it in a, in an inclusive property, or do you want to go in it as what’s best for me, to a point we had earlier. And I think if everybody looked at it from from a overall perspective, then everything would just, in short order, get much better. And it’s possible with AI to help people. Or we can do it ourselves.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:28:26 I love that because I guess it’s that it’s augmenting the intelligence, isn’t it? It’s allowing us to kind of take what we we know and pull all of those bits together, but have a different have an emotive perspective that allows us to observe that we are what’s right for everybody.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:28:45 And actually, how do we how do we move forward for that? And anything that drives positive change has to be has to be a good thing, doesn’t it? That allows us to do things in a in a better position than they are today.
Bruce Randall 00:28:57 Yes. And I think that’s that’s the point. It kind of gets it gets people to think differently about it. It puts AI and BCI in perspective, and people look at it and say, I’m really in charge of this, and this is an enabler if I choose to use it, and then people, when they know they’re in charge, then they can do it themselves, or they too can get a chip and they can do it that way. But it’s a choice.
Bruce Randall 00:29:24 Yeah.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:29:26 I love that because I think everything in life is a choice. it needs to be realized that, you know, we can’t control the circumstances, but we can control how we choose to respond to them. and therefore, our choice is the thing that that we get to own and we get to control, and we and we get to, if we make a if we make a bad choice, it’s a choice.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:29:47 We can make a brand new one straight afterwards. I do think that that old adage that I grew up with, which is, you’ve made your bed, you’ve got to lie in it. It’s like she bed it again. It’s like shop buying in it. Get out.
Bruce Randall 00:30:00 To see.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:30:01 yeah. We if we look at that with, with choices, it makes things so much easier. And I could literally chat to you all day, but I’m conscious of time. so, Bruce, if you could go back and give your younger self a piece of advice, what would it be?
Bruce Randall 00:30:16 It would be to go inside at an earlier age, meditate, get to know who you truly are, and that would align and produce a better first ten years than I had, and get me further along in the decades that follow. Because if you if you believe in yourself and you have the information to know that you can believe in yourself, then you’re going to get further in this world than if you don’t.
Bruce Randall 00:30:43 Because if you don’t believe in yourself, just few other people that are going to.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:30:48 It’s very, very true. And yet so often for so many of us, believing in ourself doesn’t come naturally, doesn’t come easy. until you go and do until you go and do that in a work. So thank you so much. But before you go, can you tell us how can people get in touch with you and who do you help?
Bruce Randall 00:31:08 Sure. they can get in touch with me at my website. It’s w w w v I paradox.com. I have a free consultation on the page. I’m updating it right now, but it’s got other other podcasts and my story on there. They can understand who I am and if I can help in any way. Please, please reach out to me.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:31:32 Amazing. And we’ll make sure, obviously, all the ways to connect with you, Bruce, and learn more about what you do and how you can help are in the show notes below, but I’d just like to say thank you so very much for coming on and sharing your journey with us, and sharing such great insight and advice.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:31:48 It’s been an absolute pleasure. Thank you.
Bruce Randall 00:31:51 Thank you Kim. It’s been my pleasure.
Kim-Adele Randall 00:31:53 And to everybody listening and watching, I hope you found it equally insightful and inspiring. And until next time, take care.