Understanding Human Psychology

Artificial Intelligence is Really Intelligent or its just Us? It doesn’t think—it calculates. It doesn’t feel—it predicts. Yes we are talking about AI. Thinking like a philosopher I reflect on a core debate today, is AI truly intelligent or is the human intelligent who has created it. At the end of the day, AI literally mimics the human mind, however it a machine.  I think AI feels intelligent to us, as it gives us instant answers to any question we ask, better than what we have thought through, yet at the end of the day it has studied vast amount of data and works on pattern recognition. While we talk so much about AI, it's worth to pause and ask how many breakthroughs has human achieved in years as a process of evolution. AI being one of it. Maybe what we’re calling “artificial intelligence” is more aptly described as amplified pattern recognition, not consciousness, not intuition, not motivation, not emotion, not wisdom. At least not yet. That means how much ever we are floored ...

  ✨ Trusting the Process: From Streams to Clouds to Rain ✨ I’ve always been very fond of stories—because they have a way of saying what our hearts know but our minds sometimes forget. So let me share one that beautifully captures what I feel today. In Tales of the Dervishes, a stream flows through many lands until it reaches a desert. The stream tries to cross, but the heat turns its waters into vapor. In surrender, it transforms into clouds, carried by the winds across the desert. On the other side, it returns as rain, becoming a stream once again. The desert reminds the stream: “Do not worry. Trust the process. You will become yourself again.” This story feels close to home as I reflect on our journey at ZS Associates. When we submitted our entries for the Brandon Hall Group Awards, all we could do was give our best, and then trust the process—just like the stream. And today, I am beyond thrilled to share that ZS has won Gold in two categories 🏆: 🌟 Leadership Development – for ...