AI should do your work chores.
You know the Eisenhower Matrix? Urgent versus important, etc. A method like this helps us because we tend to put off the hard stuff. The human stuff. We use excuses of urgency or money or whatever else we can grab onto to justify prioritizing the wrong tasks.
Chores are one of those categories of tasks that we use as an excuse. Here’s what the brilliant Seth Godin has to say about chores:
“Entrepreneurs, artists and freelancers [my input: and all workers] often spend a lot of time on chores. We justify this because outsourcing chores to others costs money, and in this moment, money is tight.
But that’s not the real story.
The truth is that if we stop doing chores, we have to do real work instead. The things that aren’t repeatable or proven. The things that are emotionally difficult, creatively challenging or simply requiring exploration and guts to pursue.”
Seth Godin — Chores
Chores in non-work life do provide value. They help connect us to the physical requirements of life. The bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and whatnot.
But in our work, we often justify doing chores because of our emotional resistance to doing the real work. The work that matters.
AI doesn’t care. It’s happy to do the chores. It would never think, “I don’t want to do this menial task.” So let it.
Because if AI does your chores, you can be the free-thinking human. We need you to be.
