Three Things That Changed My Resistance to AI
I resisted AI longer than I want to admit. Not because I didn't understand it, but because I was afraid of what it would take from me. That fear kept me from seeing what it could give me. Three things shifted it.
One: left brain, right brain. I stopped living in fear of what AI would take from my creativity and got curious about what it could take off my plate instead. The left-brain tasks. Shot lists, cold outreach, scheduling, accounting. The parts of running a photography business that were never the reason I picked up a camera.
Two: free webinars. We're living in a moment where you can learn deep skills online without paying a dollar. I take real notes on a webinar, bring those notes back to my AI, and build the thing for my business. AI fills in most of what the webinar held back. More than once I've asked whether I should buy the course being pitched, and the honest answer that came back was: you're already doing it. Keep going.
Three, the one I didn't see coming: it learns your brain. I've always been a nonlinear thinker. School was hard because I was taught the way other people learn, so I spent years quietly building workarounds. With AI, you can build your tools in a way that makes sense to your brain, not everyone else's. If you're a creative, your brain probably works a little differently too. There's real creativity in how you build these things, and that surprised me most of all.
If you've been sitting in resistance, I get it. This one is for you.