Nick Bennett

BREAKING: Disney to invest $1 Billion in OpenAI and license characters for use in ChatGPT’s Sora The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters

the weird shall inherit the earth

I’ve found in my coaching that I can directly measure the level of fear someone is experiencing by counting the number of options they believe they have If they think they have ZERO options ("There's nothing I can do, it's out of my hands"), they're in an extremely fearful state This is equivalent to a frightened animal cowering in the corner of a cage. They don't believe they can do anything to influence their situation. They have no choice but to endure it If they think they have ONE option ("I have to break up with her," "I have to quit my job") they're in a highly fearful state They see one possible course of action, but only one, and thus they still don't really have a choice, and are at the mercy of external forces If they think they have TWO options ("I have to either get a job or stay unemployed," "I can stay with him or leave him") there's still a lot of fear, although they're slightly more empowered as there's at least some choice This is binary thinking – you have to make a choice, and the available options represent two extremes without much subtlety or nuance If they think they have THREE options ("I can take this job, that job, or keep searching," "We can stay together, break up, or shift our relationship in this way...") then real choice is beginning to emerge They are now emerging from fear-based decision-making, and starting to mix and match different elements of their available options to come up with new ones Once they think they have FOUR OR MORE options, that's when the fear fades into the background, true agency emerges, and they start to be fully empowered to author their life as a creative act That's when things become truly interesting...