Own Your One Thing

As we’ve witnessed over the last year, the better prompts that we ask of AI models, the better answers that the AI model is able to retrieve and share. Not only are we witnessing an incredible computing breakthrough, but the Prompt - Response framework is also a visible and extremely clear model of how HI (Human Intelligence) works! The Socratic method of question and response is laid before our eyes in all its power.

While Google and the new AI tools have deeply habituated all of us to look for answers out in the known universe of information - we have spent precious little time exploring how to ask better questions of our own HI.

To achieve true Rocket Goal success requires a fundamental shift in how and where you look for meaningful information:

If you want to continue to achieve ordinary results, then simply continue to search and use the same information search models that 99.999% of the world is using day after day.

However, if you want to start making impossible progress towards your Rocket Goals and get dramatically new and marketing crushing results, then you must dramatically re-orient how and where you seek useful information! 

It turns out that the results that you seek are literally within your own Human Intelligence, not out somewhere on the Internet in some random search result or some AI Prompt-Response.

In his book The One Thing, Gary Keller distills his One Thing framework down to one exceptionally powerful prompt -

What's the ONE Thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

What exactly makes this prompt so absolutely and exponentially powerful?

1). First - and most importantly - you simply cannot Google or AI Prompt your way to answering the ONE Thing question! Answering this questions requires inward contemplation, vision, and inspiration. It also takes a little bit of focused time to properly align your thinking and wait for the response.

2). The ONE Thing admonition is a 10,000X forcing function that makes you reset and focus your vision on the singular goal that will be the domino for unlocking all your other goals. The ONE Thing model works because it prompts your Human Intelligence to intuit the proper order and chain of events that lead to exponential growth. By constantly asking and re-asking this question, you will develop a keenly honed, moment to moment GPS system guiding you from one essential task to the next, in the perfect order!

3). Each of us has been given incredible latitude to choose between possible One Things. However, don’t get caught spinning your wheels on all the possible lives you could lead! Spend waaaaaay less time obsessing on trying to find the “best” and “perfect” choice, and instead, learn to deeply obsess and prioritize on the One Thing that you are in fact focused on. Eventually, you can and MUST pick a path!!! As Will Rogers said - “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

4). What if it turns out that your ONE Thing is somehow a dead-end? Like Michelangelo in his studio, sometimes we must pause on a given project and wait to see if more inspiration or better timing unfolds. That is simply the nature of any and all creative projects! Please note well - Michelangelo did not quit being an artist when one of his sculptures needed to go on pause! He pivoted his energy and ONE Thing obsession to a different project.

5). Within your ONE Thing, there will naturally evolve a myriad of sub questions and choices to be made. Just as you learned to use HI to hone in on your big picture ONE Thing, trust that your HI can also guide you on your path for all the subsequent decisions. Anytime you are faced with a problem -strongly resist the temptation to immediately Google for some expert commentary, or prompt the AI for some canned perfectly written answer. Instead, trust your own Human Intelligence first and foremost to lead you in the correct path. With your own vision clarified - then and only then should you venture out and consult with the shared wisdom and AI recitations.

In a world of absolutely overwhelming information - the ability to hone in on your ONE Thing, and then learning to nurture and trust the answers of your own HI is the most powerful exponential skill you can develop! We have always been prompt engineers - just be sure you are asking the best intelligence for answers.