Want to START a business? Go here: https://bizwebjournal.com
Want to GROW your business? Go here: https://dominoleads.com
FREE Ways to support me:
- Like this video
- Subscribe for more
- WATCH all the way to end
DISCLAIMER: Some of the links I share are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you make a purchase (at no extra cost to you). Rest assured, I only recommend what I use, trust, and pay for myself. The information in my videos is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. There are no guarantees of income or success, and any results mentioned are not typical. Always do your own research before making financial decisions.
Video transcript
In 2025, the winners won't be the marketers, the developers, or the designers. They'll be AI generalists who can do it all. In this video, I'll show you why AI generalists will dominate every industry in the coming years, the 8 AI skills that anyone can learn to become one, and exactly how to master these skills yourself, even if you're starting from zero.
This video isn't just another Learn AI guide, it's your blueprint to becoming unstoppable in 2025 and beyond. Now, to understand how to be one of the few winners in 2025, regardless of your career path, you need to understand the dynamics of the period that we're entering into. And over the coming decade, the job market and society itself will be completely transformed by AI and automation.
According to McKinsey's 2023 research report, AI could automate up to 50% of the current work activities by 2030. And similarly, Bain's research shows that up to 80% of workers will face wage stagnation or displacement by 2030 due to AI and automation. So in this era of radical transformation, how can you develop a winning strategy for your career to navigate through these uncharted waters? Believe it or not, evolutionary biology actually holds a lot of the answers we're looking for here.
As Darwin said, it's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It's the one that's the most adaptable to change. And so during periods of massive environmental change, like this rocky period that humanity is entering over the next decade and beyond, the most adaptable organisms survive best.
And nature gives us two distinct strategies for adapting as an organism. We have specialists and we have generalists. For example, consider the giant panda.
It's evolved over millions of years to eat only bamboo with a thumb that's specifically designed to strip the bamboo leaves off the bamboo. And now in stable times, this specialization is actually incredibly successful. There's a lot of bamboo they can tap into this food source, right? But if something happens to the bamboo forests, these pandas basically face extinction because they can't adapt to other food sources.
They are overly dependent on the specialization. These incredibly specialized and beautiful creatures that were perfectly adapted to their niches, they were wiped out almost overnight. And who survived? It was the small, inadaptable mammals, our ancient ancestors, and they weren't the strongest or the most specialized.
They were generalists who could eat anything, live anywhere, and quickly adapt to changing conditions in their environment. We're witnessing a similar extinction level event in the job market right now. And just like the dinosaurs, there's a gigantic meteor coming right for us.
In today's world, thankfully, we are not competing for physical survival. We're competing for economic and professional survival. Just as environmental changes once determined which species thrived, technological changes are now determining which careers and skills will prosper.
In this competition for economic survival, the specialists are the corporate lawyers who spent seven years mastering contract law, or the radiologists who are dedicated to reading medical images, or the software developers who invested years in learning a specific programming language. And for the past 80 years, specialization like this has been the safest career strategy. You got to go deep in one area and become irreplaceable to enjoy a stable and prosperous career.
But that equation is being flipped on its head over the next few decades as AI systems are now matching or exceeding these specialists' performance in countless different fields. They are diagnosing diseases as accurately as doctors. They're reviewing legal documents faster than lawyers and write code better and faster than many developers.
And this is just the beginning. These AI capabilities are literally doubling every six months. So it's pretty safe to say that no career is safe over the next 10 years.
So we know what a specialist is, but what does an adaptable generalist look like in today's world? These modern-day generalists are individuals who harness AI to acquire the capabilities of multiple different specialists simultaneously. While these AI generalists may not match the absolute peak performance of true specialists right now, they can very quickly achieve up to say 80% of the capabilities of specialists across multiple different domains and specialization. So instead of spending a decade mastering just one skill, these AI generalists can become proficient in new areas and new specializations in literally weeks.
They're using image generation to create professional artwork. They're using AI app builders to create software and using language models to write in any style or format they want. They're basically acquiring these new powers through AI and allowing them to do more with less effort across many different fields.
The potential of these AI generalists is so profound that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently shared that among his tech CEO friends, they're all taking bets on when we'll see the first one-person billion-dollar company. And that's something that would have been unimaginable without AI according to him. This is because these AI generalists are like modern-day Leonardo da Vinci's.
And we're essentially in a digital renaissance right now. And just as da Vinci was able to combine both art and engineering and anatomy and mathematics to see connections that others of his time in the renaissance missed, today's generalists use AI to bring multiple different disciplines together and create value in entirely new ways that weren't possible before. The tools we have at our disposal today would seem like complete magic to Leonardo da Vinci.
And what took him basically years to master, we can now learn in weeks. What used to require teams of specialists, you can now do it alone with AI. And what once would have cost millions in equipment and staff, you can now achieve from your laptop on your own.
And so the path to thrive in 2025 and beyond isn't through deeper specialization. It's through becoming an AI generalist who has the power of entire departments of business at their fingertips. And this requires mastering four fundamental powers in the AI age that are each unlocked by a specific set of skills that anyone can learn, which we're going to jump into in a second.
It may seem daunting to have to pick up all these skills, but learning them is what it's actually going to take to be able to thrive in the AI age. But don't just take it from me, take it from Peter Thiel, an absolute legend in the tech space and multi-billionaire, and the that he gave to Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg said, I think Peter was the person who told me that in a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.
So if you're ready to take some risk and pick up some new powers in the AI age, let me tell you exactly what these powers are and how you can master them. Now, the key to becoming an unstoppable AI generalist lies in the mastering of eight different AI skills, which can be grouped into the four fundamental powers of the AI age that generalists can acquire. Firstly, we have the power to build, which is creating software and tools.
Then we have the power to automate, which is creating AI agents and automating workloads. Then we have the power to create, generating professional grade content. And finally, the power to connect, building influence and audience.
In this section, I'll show you exactly what each of these powers are, why they're so powerful and the specific AI skills and tools needed to acquire each, starting with the most fundamental, the power to build. We all know software runs the world. Every app, website, or digital tool that you use started with someone first building it.
And so for most of us, this world of building has been locked away behind coding skills that we don't have. So think about the last time you had an tool or a website. Maybe you had like a calculator for some specific needs.
You wanted a custom booking system or a unique way to organize information just for yourself. So the old way would be to hire a developer and pay him thousands of dollars and then wait weeks of constant back and forth and communication before you finally get what you actually want. Now using AI tools like Bolt, Cursor and Repl.it, you can now build working software just by describing what you want in plain English.
Now these AI built tools and software aren't as polished as professional software, but they do work. And you can create some simple websites or calculators or trackers or just tools for yourself in general, or for your small business in just minutes instead of months and with thousands of dollars to spend. And these kinds of tools that allow you to build the software are only getting better and better.
Soon people will be able to create entire businesses around AI generated software. And so now is the perfect time to start learning how to use these kind of AI assisted development tools. Therefore, the only skill required to gain the power to build is AI assisted app development with builders like Bolt and Repl.it. Now building your own custom tools is really just the start of software.
The real power comes from automating repetitive work. Think about all the repetitive work that you do every day. You've got answering similar emails, scheduling meetings, creating social posts, managing tasks and updating spreadsheets.
The old way was to either just do all this stuff yourself or to pay and hire a virtual assistant to do it for you, which can be both expensive and time consuming. The world famous investor slash philosopher, Naval Ravikant explains that success in the modern world comes down to leverage, ways to multiply your effort without multiplying the time you put in. Traditionally, there are three forms of leverage.
You have labor, which is hiring people. You have capital, which is using money. And you have products with marginal cost replication, which he puts down to being as code or as content.
This means that with a piece of code or software, once you create it once, replicating that for thousands or millions of users basically costs nothing to reach another user. And the same thing goes for content, because once I've created this video, it doesn't cost me anything extra in terms of effort for it to be shown to a thousand more people. The creation of AI agents are a completely new form of leverage, which essentially combines code leverage and labor leverage into something that's entirely new.
You're essentially creating digital workers that you can spawn instantly for a fraction of the cost, and they can work for you with no complaints. But building and managing AI agents is just one part of the power to automate. The other half is AI based workflow automation.
Creating systems that connect your tools and handle routine tasks for you automatically and in the background. When you combine both of these, you can build entire automated systems that will basically do your job or run your business while you sleep. 2025 and the future that lies ahead belongs to the people who can create and deploy these AI workers, because it's like having a superpower where you can multiply yourself through technology.
In order to gain this power of automation, you need to master the following skills. Firstly, no code AI agent development. So that's using things like open AI, GPTs and relevance AI to be able to create these digital workers.
Secondly, it's no code AI workflow automation. So connecting tools and building workflows using Zapier or make.com. The third skill is prompt engineering, being able to craft powerful prompts. And last we have API integrations, which is understanding basically how all of these automations can connect together.
All of these skills combined let you build sophisticated automated systems that basically work for you 24 seven. Think about all of the content that a modern business or a creator needs. You need graphic designs, you need videos, you need music, you need writing, even simple projects need basically professional grade content to stand out these days.
The old way was either to learn these complex creative tools yourself or to hire expensive freelancers or agencies to make this stuff for you. Like a single video ad or a new ad campaign could cost thousands of dollars to get it done with a creative agency or freelancer. Now, AI creative tools allow you to generate professional content in minutes.
As Kevin Kelly said, the printing press democratized knowledge, the camera democratized images, and AI is democratizing creativity itself. Whether you are an employee or a business owner, knowing how to use these creative AI tools and the skills to use them appropriately and effectively make you so much more valuable because if you need a logo, you can use mid journey or Leonardo to create one for you in a few seconds. If you want a professional looking video, you have runway AI or cling that can generate it in seconds.
If you want your own music tracks, there's apps like Suna, which create original songs in any style you want. And if you're struggling with video editing, you can use Descript and its AI features to handle all sorts of stuff automatically. With these kinds of tools available, you're only limited by your prompting ability and your creativity in order to create new works of art.
These kinds of AI tools aren't just faster. They're giving us creative capabilities that would have seemed impossible to us just a year ago. And like everything else in the AI space, they're improving every single month.
So to gain the power of creation as an AI generalist, you need two core skills. Firstly, AI content generation. So that's using things like mid journey and Dolly and replicate for your images, runway AI for generating videos and creating custom music with apps like Suna.
And the second skill is AI editing and enhancement. So that's polishing content with tools like Descript and Opus, because the stuff that comes out of these AI content generators that we just covered are typically not really out of the box. You need to have some help to buff them up into shape in order to be able to get the most value out of it.
So AI assisted video and photo editing software is also a really important place to brush up on your skills. So regardless of your career path, having the powers of a creative agency at your fingertips makes you insanely valuable. Success in 2025 and beyond will go to those who can connect with others, those who can successfully build an audience.
And the ability to stand out from the crowd isn't just optional anymore. It's actually a basic need for survival in the modern world. Building a following used to be reserved for natural writers or charismatic personalities, but AI has changed everything on this front.
Now, basically anyone can build a personal brand through text-based content like X and LinkedIn or through video here on YouTube. But at the end of the day, building a following always comes back to having interesting ideas and communicating them clearly. And doing this requires the skill of writing.
As David McCullough says, writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's hard.
But thankfully, today's AI tools make writing easier than ever for people. They don't need to replace your thinking, they just kind of amplify it. They help you explore your ideas faster, structure your arguments better, and express your thoughts more clearly.
So long story short, without a personal brand, you will fade into the background in 2025 and beyond, while others rise and capture all of the opportunities. It's really that simple. So to gain this power of connection, you only need one core skill, and that's AI-enhanced writing using tools like Claude by Anthropic to write better and write faster.
And to help you reach more people with the same amount of work, you can also use your AI automation skills from the Power to Automate to create content repurposing systems using AI to amplify the impact of your writing. By allowing you to reach more people with the same set of ideas, you start to see how these four powers of building and automating and creating and connecting, they all kind of work together. Each one amplifies the others.
And if you can master them all, then you'll become unstoppable in 2025 and beyond. Now as you go through 2025, remember what we learned from Darwin. It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent.
It's the one that's most adaptable to change. I've just given you the blueprint to maximizing your adaptability in 2025 and beyond as an AI generalist and explained the theory behind why it will dominate the entire next decade. AI is creating a new class of people that are better adapted to this digital age.
And the question for you now is, will you be one of them? Now, if you want to start your own business, check out the first link in the description where I give away all my training for free to get you started. And if you are already running a local business and want to grow and scale with AI automations, make sure to visit the second link below to find out more. Thanks for watching and I will see you in one of the next videos that should pop up right about now.