All right there.
Katie Sutton, welcome back to your show.
Good morning, how are you?
I'm doing great.
Last week we talked about,
what was last week?
It was four questions on how
to revamp your career or
sort of like reframe or
re-look at your career.
And now if you've taken
those and you've done those,
I did a little bit.
I think it was a good way to
look at things because it
allows you to reverse engineer.
Because what you would tell
a seventeen year old, right,
it's May as we record this next month,
all these high school kids
are going to graduate these kids today.
And that question is going
to have is going to come up.
What do you want to be when
you grow up or what are you
going to major in school?
What job are you going to get after that?
And the funny part is.
someone said it when I was
graduating high school,
which was nineteen ninety seven.
And I think the world was
moving pretty fast in ninety seven.
But it's not even close to
how fast the world is moving now.
So the reality is the jobs
that the class of twenty
twenty five graduating from
high school or college are
going to have five years from now.
They might not have been invented yet.
So we talked about this a
little bit last time, which is.
Look for the elements or the skills,
right?
Because skills are like the
periodic table of elements
of whatever it is you are,
what you like doing, what the world needs,
what you can get paid for,
and what you're good at, right?
That's ikigai, what you love,
what the world needs,
what you can get paid for,
what you're good at.
So cool.
But what skills like in what direction?
So not just saying to a high
school graduate in twenty
twenty five or a college
student in twenty twenty five.
What classes should you take?
A lot of times you work at a university.
Majors did not exist five
years ago and now they do.
Right.
Complete programs,
complete schools didn't exist.
So there was a you found this.
There was a recent report
from World Economic Forum.
Forum, I think, yeah.
And they did this really, I like charts.
I like reading and everything,
but like when you give me
like an image to look at
and I can sort of parse out what that is.
And I thought that this
image was really good.
So we're gonna flash it on
the screen if you're
watching a live stream on YouTube,
but we'll walk through it.
And this is, what kind of a chart is this,
a quadrant?
I guess, yeah.
It's a graph that sort of
highlights on one side
share of organizations that
consider skills increasing
in use by twenty thirty
across the X axis and across the Y axis.
They're talking about share
of organizations that
consider skills to be core
skills in twenty twenty five.
So what it's saying is
what's important now and
what will be important later.
And obviously if you look at that on an X,
Y graph, the top, as always,
or most of the time top
into the right is better in this case.
So where do you wanna start?
I've broken the images so we
can look at them better
into the four quadrants.
We gotta save the best for last, right?
Let's save the future for last.
What's gonna be better.
So let's start with out of focus.
I was just gonna say,
let's start with the out of focus skills.
Cause I actually found this
to be quite interesting.
Okay, so out of focus skills,
like the worst possible or
one of the worst possible skills on here,
manual dexterity,
endurance and precision.
Like people who are good with their hands,
like that jumped out at me
because I recently
renovated my kitchen and
people who are good with their hands
Dude,
they are worth a lot because... So I
think what this is saying
too is it says less
essential now and not
expected to increase in use.
I think because this is the
global economic forum,
they're looking at that on
larger scales in terms of
computing power.
So that one jumped out at me,
but I don't want people to say...
well,
maybe I shouldn't go back to school
to be in the trades.
If that's what you like,
I would actually encourage
someone to do that.
But what else on this
quadrant of out of focus skills,
less essential now and not
inspected to increase in
use in twenty thirty?
Anything else jump out?
Yeah.
Reading, writing, and mathematics.
And I honestly think this is
because of some of the
things that's in the other
categories like AI.
Do you remember when we were
in school and your teacher was like,
you're not going to have a
calculator with you all the time.
And I'm like, well.
Listen, Mrs. Shiner, I'm very sorry.
But in fifth grade,
you said it's not like
you're going to have a
calculator in your pocket.
And you're right.
I could have an AirPod in my
ear and just ask it to do
the math for me.
That's true.
So I'm not advocating for
students or these kids
today to understand the concepts of math,
but like the kid who won
the math B or the spelling B.
Cute trick,
but not necessarily the most
important thing as we go
into twenty thirty now.
Yeah.
Multilingualism.
We know that there are I mean,
the one of the scribes that the company,
my day job uses a cellist.
It can change a note into
sixty different languages
with a click like a pilot.
Yeah.
So it's wild.
You can put an air pod in
and have an in person real
time conversation with
someone in a different
language and you can
understand that person.
I mean, this is Star Trek level stuff.
Did you watch Star Trek?
Were you a dork?
No, I did not.
Or a geek?
I think I was a geek.
And they would get over the fact that like,
well,
how is everybody in space speak English?
And they solved that by saying,
we have a universal translator.
And that was like a cheap
way of like saying like, okay, well,
the audience has to understand it.
So we'll just shoot everything English,
except,
That's a thing now.
In the future,
you might have that built
into your house.
You might just have speakers
around the house and be
able to have a conversation.
So manual dexterity, reading, writing,
arithmetic, multilingualism.
This one sort of shocked me.
You're in education,
teaching and mentoring.
I know.
It was on my list of,
I highlighted the ones that
were either surprising or
like shocking to me.
And that was one that I had
highlighted because I
actually tell students all the time.
I'm like,
Hey,
some of the number one ways to avoid
burnout is to either get
mentorship or mentor someone else.
And so if they're listening to this,
they're probably going to
be like Katie said, but again,
less essential, not expected to increase.
So that doesn't mean that
it's not important.
Right.
All right.
So this is the bottom left
of the graph as Tony Maritato chimes in,
teach them how to fish.
So like that,
I believe he's talking about
in terms of like math instead of like,
you know,
teach them how to do this stuff.
So I don't know.
To me, I would expect,
and I've cheated because
I've looked at this graph before,
the ability to communicate
an idea is going to be up there.
So this is the bottom left.
Where do you want to go?
Where do you want to go now?
Ooh, let's go to, how about steady?
Yeah, let's use steady.
Steady skills.
So this would be core now,
but not expected to
increase in the future.
So this would be the bottom
right of the graph, like getting better,
but not expected to increase.
Not a whole lot on here that fits there.
Dependability and attention to detail.
If you're going to have AI oversight,
you can...
I use Grammarly.
I was never good at grammar,
and I have a degree in journalism.
I could get the idea,
but help me get the fine point.
Where does the apostrophe go again?
Possessive?
I never learned that, and I'm forty-five.
Oxford comma.
Nobody really knows.
Service orientation and customer service,
though.
Yeah.
Steady skill.
Yeah.
I mean,
I can use all the technology I want,
but I still hope that when
I go to the coffee shop,
I get great service and
customer service oriented
towards the human
The funny part is as the pendulum swings,
the funny thing is that's
how pendulums work, right?
So some of these things that
are going to be, quote,
less important in the next
five years will likely improve.
Gary Vee, do you know Gary Vee?
You don't seem like a person
who would listen to Gary Vee.
That doesn't shock me by the
look on your face.
Gary V's a bit in your face.
He said something every day
and he says a lot of things
that are ridiculous now and
then wind up coming true.
Like he started doing a
YouTube channel about wine tasting.
Fifteen years ago and everybody was like,
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
And he grew it to a
multimillion dollar business.
He said in ten years or five years,
I bet you'll be paying
people to take walks with you.
like human companionship.
Like there's a library
somewhere in Europe that you can rent,
you can take people out,
like people with various
backgrounds and spend an hour with them.
And that's laughable right
now until you live in a
world where that isn't commonplace.
And now the rare thing is
the valuable thing,
the thing that was everywhere.
All right.
So that's the bottom right.
I don't think we saw
anything revolutionary in
the bottom left and bottom right.
Bring that back up.
Which one?
The bottom right?
The study skills.
Yeah.
Study skills.
There we go.
Study skills.
Because I think, where is it?
Empathy was somewhere close to that one.
Empathy and active listening.
But it might have been on
the... You know what?
Also, this might be a pared down version.
We've looked at a couple of
versions of this.
So...
Where do you think empathy was?
Was that growing or not growing?
My guess would be it would be growing.
But let's look at the top
left and top right of this graph now.
Oh, it's on the border.
It's on the border of core
skills growing and
Yeah.
See,
so like some of those are like right
on the border,
like design and user experience.
So design and user experience,
environmental stewardship
and networks and cybersecurity.
So these are emerging.
They're less essential now,
but expected to increase in use.
So this will be the top left of the graph.
Listen,
everything's going to be built on a
network.
So just but just simply
telling somebody who's
twenty two years old to go
get a degree in it or to finalize that,
like, I don't think that helps enough.
I think you have to look at
the core elements of what
goes into that just because
it's a safe bet.
I mean, years ago it was learn how to code,
learn how to code,
learn how to code and then.
Katie,
you could log on to ChatGPT and code
an app if you really had
the desire because it would
be your coder for you.
But that wasn't a thing a
couple months ago for me.
Environmental stewardship,
like I'm shocked to see
something with the
environment jump on and be
anywhere because typically
we've just sort of trashed
that thing for the longest time.
Yeah.
and I know very little about this,
but the computing power,
the energy required to run
these AI systems,
the water required to cool
them is not small.
So if we're using this AI more frequently,
we've got to find that
balance because we can't
just continue to trash everything.
So yeah,
so I could see that that's going
to be up there on that list.
All right, so top right.
This is the reason people
open a graph like this.
This is the reason we saved
it for eleven minutes into the episode.
So what is core now and
expected to increase in the importance?
If you've got kids,
this is the one we're going to say.
Skate to where the puck is going to be,
not to where the puck is.
So here it is.
Top right.
Core skills in twenty thirty.
Does this shock you, Katie Sutton?
When did you finally
actually create a ChatGPT
account after me harping on
this for you for a long time?
How long did it take?
How long have you been playing with AI?
About six months.
Okay, good.
Now that I'm playing with it, I love it.
I still think you're ahead
of the largest portion of the curve.
Really?
You think?
Yes.
There are people who are
sleeping on this and bitching and saying,
get off my lawn.
AI and big data is the
highest one on this list.
It is.
Way up there.
Yeah.
Technological literacy.
Also up there.
Now,
here's the funny part or what I take
from this.
It doesn't say technological ability.
It says technological literacy literacy.
If I don't know how to do something,
but I'm literate and I can
go to the library or Google
something or watch a video,
I can learn how to now do that thing.
Still watching is famous.
I don't know something.
So it's saying technological literacy.
It's like,
I know enough on how to figure it out.
If you get me,
if you can show me how to
tie a fishing line and how
to bait the hook,
I'll figure the fish out.
I'll figure it out.
Technological literacy is
huge because these things
are going to play with each other.
They already are.
Like how we produce these podcasts,
how we're able to create
images or to write the show
notes or to set up outlines
before we record.
All these things come into play.
So I think technological literacy,
AI and big data are the
number one and number two.
And then talk about this one to the right.
Resilience, flexibility and agility.
That is very high on the
list in future core skills
in twenty thirty.
Why do you think that made it?
I think that you're going to
have to be somewhat
resilient to push forward
in a technologically advanced world,
right?
I mean,
that's going to be very challenging.
And again,
someone like myself who kind of
fought it kicking and
screaming and you're like,
it's going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
you know,
it isn't something that comes easy.
You just taught me how to
work my mic like five
seconds ago before we got started.
So, you know,
but continuously coming back
to it and trying to wrap
your brain around it.
I mean,
but it's the same thing with what
we do in education.
I mean,
students come in and it's a fire
hose of information and you
have to have a certain
level of grit and
resiliency to keep coming
back to class because it
would just be really easy to be like,
I'm done.
Can you tell in the first week of class,
who's going to be, who's going to have,
who's going to do well,
who's going to have some
problems and maybe who's
not going to make it like,
are there like key indicators?
Even if you like,
even if you maybe don't
have words for them, like,
can you just sort of gut, can you tell?
I would say within the first
couple of weeks,
you can tell who's all in
and who's not all in.
And I think that that goes
back to the whole four
qualities of a good career.
Did these people really
educate themselves on what
they were getting themselves into.
We're in physical therapy,
so it's amazing the amount
of people who come in and go,
I didn't know I had to touch feet.
I didn't know I had to toilet someone.
So those kind of things,
that can totally check someone out.
But it's also very,
very interesting and really
cool to see when you have a
student who gets through, I don't know,
the first year.
And they were the person who was like,
I'm only doing outpatient
orthopedic sports and all of this.
And then they find this love
in acute care rehab
settings inpatient or the
people who had a lot of
life challenges happening
early in their initial
educational career and they
overcome these things and
you're like that student
shouldn't have made it this
far and they find the
resilience and the grit and
things like that so yeah
that's pretty cool to see I
mean if they're kids
listening you know earmuff
it but I was taught you
can't teach give a
If you really want this,
you'll find a way.
You beg, borrow, and steal, right?
Adapt, evade, and overcome.
I think that's Navy SEALs.
They're just like, you'll figure it out.
Hell or high water.
That is a skill that is high
and to the right now and
expected to actually
increase in importance.
Here's why.
When I started this podcast in,
it's nine and a half years ago, right?
There was nobody.
And it was both hard to get
traction because I had to
explain to people what a podcast was,
right?
But there was no competition.
But people didn't know what it was, right?
So you fought that.
And then there was a tipping
point where enough people
knew what it was
but then more people started
to make podcasts.
And now Katie Sutton,
I think that more people
actually have podcasts than
don't have podcasts.
Everybody and their mom has their podcast.
People have six podcasts, right?
So why do you think mine does well?
I'm using air quotes.
I think mine does well,
not because I'm the
smartest guy in the room.
I'm not.
I'm never the smartest guy in the room.
Even full of toddlers,
I'm never the smartest guy in the room.
I think it's because of this thing.
I like it enough to be
resilient and flexible.
I have my buddy Drew yelling
and screaming at me in twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty.
You need to do video.
I don't want to do video.
I'm a radio guy.
It's a podcast, dude.
Pay attention, bro.
And he was right.
Most of the time,
the thing we resist or we want to resist,
deep down we know we have to.
We don't want the icky
feeling of change and the
fact that now things are
getting harder and heavier.
Most of the time,
I try to stay away from always,
most of the time,
though when you get past
that you wish you started
earlier went bigger had
done it sooner and just did
the thing just hit the
start button yeah I knew I
should have went to video
earlier what else is in the
top right that makes um I
think these are all my
favorites these are all my
favorite things by the way
so I'm excited for my
future because everything here I love
Curiosity and lifelong learning, though,
I think that ties also into
that resiliency.
Again,
just going back to teach them how to
teach them how to fish and
the resiliency.
Well, if you want to be resilient,
you're going to have to
continue to ask questions.
And if you keep asking questions,
you're going to continue to
be curious and you're going
to continue to learn and
all of this stuff.
So just with the whole
Drew talking you into doing video.
I mean,
you've been trying to talk me into
doing video.
And I'm like, hold on, wait a minute.
Let me get my feet steady
and all of that stuff.
Well, here we are, you know,
two years later.
Tony, if he's still watching,
Tony and I and Dave Kittle
do a live stream focused on business,
right?
Yeah.
I would say curiosity and
lifelong learning is on the list.
Resilience, flexibility and agility,
not actual physical agility,
but mental agility.
Yes.
This is why if you go into
Facebook groups in our profession and out,
you see people bitching and
moaning about the way it is.
They want the way it is to be better.
They have to understand that
they need to change first.
The way is never,
it's don't ask for it to be easier,
just become better.
And unfortunately,
better doesn't happen
passively most of the time, right?
So look at all these things combined,
right?
Resilience, flexibility, agility,
curiosity, lifelong learning,
technological literacy.
Like these are some like human components.
Like you're gonna have to keep working,
bad news.
Listen,
when my dad got a job in nineteen
seventy four,
he learned something and
then along the way learned a little bit.
But the biggest learning came,
I'm guessing,
in the first three to five years.
My dad was a fireman.
The physics of fire didn't
really change a lot.
Fire burn, it go up, right?
It go out, it can kill you, stay low.
Now, maybe they, I know this,
but they invented new tools,
different types of nozzles,
different equipment.
So the little bit of
learning along the way, but most of it,
he didn't have to.
That's one type of job.
The jobs that we're in are very,
very human oriented and
those are messier and
you're going to have to pivot.
And if you don't have these skills,
I don't see you being
successful in the future in
most professions.
Leadership and social influence.
Yeah.
You know what I find
interesting about this is
some of my original kicking
and screaming about AI was
I was afraid it would
remove that human experience.
And if you remember me saying,
it's going to take over your brain,
you know, um, I did,
I did say that it might be
written somewhere too, but, but it didn't,
you know, when you look at those,
that list of skills,
they're still very much
human element things that
are in that expected to continue to grow,
you know, resilience, flexibility,
curiosity, lifelong learning, leadership,
and social influence.
So it's not saying that it's
removing the human experience.
As a matter of fact,
it might be upping the
human experience a little bit.
I have, since I bought a house two,
three years ago,
I now have acquired tools.
And this shocks a lot of
people that know me,
that I probably should
never have a power tool in my hand.
But I've gotten better.
I've learned to use them.
I've got a chainsaw outside in the shed.
In the hands of my buddy,
it's gonna be a better tool.
More efficient, faster, better.
I'm pretty okay now.
Me three years ago was horrible.
I think of any,
like the stuff we're talking about now,
playing with ChatGPT,
the thing that will come
out in six months to make
all of our eyes spin again, right?
It's not the tool that's gonna change it.
In the hands of someone who is willing,
ready, willing,
and able to learn how to use it better,
that person will succeed.
That person will have a
smoother path in life.
But you got to put the work in.
Like these are common patterns.
You could say the same thing,
but for a computer back in
nineteen eighty three,
computers are going to take over.
Right.
Yeah.
It's the person who knows
how to use that and is
willing to put the time,
effort and money into it.
Talent management, systems thinking,
motivation and
self-awareness also make sense.
the list of core skills that
are important now and
getting more important.
What jumps out at you from
those three remaining?
Talent management, systems thinking,
and motivation and self-awareness.
Motivation and self-awareness.
So we were just talking
about some of the big
Facebook groups that you
get into and people whining
and complaining.
Well, first of all,
have you done any work to
self-assess where you are?
If it's not working,
do some self-assessment,
figure out where you need to be,
start pulling a seat up to that table.
So I always tell you that I
get frustrated when PTAs kind of get like,
oh, well, you know,
just PTA and nobody listens
to me and I don't have a voice and blah,
blah, blah.
And I see it the opposite.
I'm like, well,
I'm just going to keep
showing up places where
PTAs aren't going.
And I'm going to ask the questions.
And so far,
I've not been kicked out of any space.
They've all been like, come on.
Come on in.
Take a seat.
So just pull the chair up.
There's a few situations
that I like to point out
where people's bitching.
I mean, I don't know.
When's bitching productive?
I'm not saying I don't do it.
I get pissed a lot.
We all do.
Yeah.
And, you know, I was told long ago,
you're allowed to bitch for
twenty four hours and then
you got to put your your
boots back on and like start solving.
No one's coming to you.
Did I ever tell you the boat
story or the boat like a little analogy?
It's one of these moments in
my life that like I still remember.
So I was training to be a
beach lifeguard for a summer.
I was going to be an ocean lifeguard.
I was in North Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina,
one of the best summers of my life.
And they did like a week of like training.
And it was awesome, right?
They're flinging us around
on jet skis and we're doing
the Baywatch thing and whatever.
It was awesome.
Yeah, yeah.
one day we were doing boat
rescues and they were
showing us like and they
knew we were like kid they
weren't gonna let us drive
the boat but like they had
to train us on it so they
did plus they wanted to
drive the boat too the
lifeguards right so one day
we're doing boats and jet
skis and we're jumping off
stuff and we're just you
know otherwise messing
around just learning this
stuff the next day we're
out on the beach it's six
thirty in the morning and
the instructor I'm not
gonna try to do the accent
but he had a south carolina accent
And he points to a buoy that was like,
I don't know, a thousand yards offshore.
And you could kind of see it.
And he's like,
the goal of this exercise is
go touch the buoy and come back.
And one of the kids from yesterday said,
where's the boat?
And this guy just looked at it and goes,
you're the boat.
Start swimming.
So like that stupid little thing,
he did not...
It was not arranged to be a
life lesson for me, but that's my line.
When it's like, you want that sale,
I want that next milestone, that marker.
I got news for you.
There's no boat coming.
Nobody's coming to save you.
So when I look at Facebook
groups and people are bitching,
I hear Monty, who was the head,
one of the lifeguard instructors,
I hear his voice going,
all these people don't,
they're standing on shore
waiting for the boat.
That buoy is not getting closer.
It's only getting further.
And they don't know.
They're the boat, but they're, they, they,
they don't.
Yeah.
And they don't recognize
that they have the skills
and the tools available to them.
Some of us have more money
and more connections and
all that stuff sucks, dude.
Some of us have bigger arms
and bigger hands and we can swim faster.
Start swimming now.
I don't know.
Like use what you have as much as you can.
So if I'm renovating the
downstairs room to be more
of an office and like I've
seen people do like neon lights,
like custom neon lights and stuff.
And you're the boat is one
of those things for me.
I was like, I don't have any tattoos,
but if I got one, that might be it.
It's a reminder to me.
It's like,
I don't care what situation you're in.
This has nothing to do with
water or buoys or boats.
This has to do with get your
shit together.
Yeah.
You're the boat.
So motivation, self-awareness.
Motivation, self-awareness.
These are all things that are important.
And then systems thinking.
I don't even know the official term.
My guess is if you can
understand how two things
can play together.
Like we're recording,
we're doing a live stream right now.
That's one system.
Well, when we're done,
I'm going to get a
transcript of this episode.
I can then put that in chat GPT and say,
what's the best title for
this episode to get the
most people to click on it on YouTube?
So that's using two different systems.
I might be wrong,
but that's my
interpretation of just
seeing two words together that I know.
Systems things.
How do these things play?
We don't have the
definitions with these though.
I'm sure they're there,
but Jimmy doesn't look at words,
I look at pictures because
I'm a big dumb animal.
Do you bring things like
this image and this report
into the classroom with your students?
Yeah, sometimes.
What would you wrap up with that?
How would you wrap up with
your students after you said, listen,
I want you, this is, you know,
extra credit homework,
or this is something I want
you to do that's outside the syllabus.
But it's important because
you are students in this
moment right now in history.
How would you sort of sum up
why they should pay
attention to a report like this?
Well,
I think because where did we see the
manual dexterity,
endurance and precision?
It was down in the out of focus,
I believe.
You know, in a PT, PTA program,
what do we do?
We teach them to work with
their hands the whole time.
So it's tons of labs.
They're working with their
hands over and over and over again.
So my challenge to them would be,
all right,
I want you to look up there at
that list of core skills in
twenty twenty or twenty thirty.
that are expected to increase.
And what creative things can
we do to make our lives
easier in the clinic within that bracket?
Because we're so focused on
all of the hands-on and manual.
And that's fine.
That's what they're going to
need to be a good PT and PTA.
But there's a lot of other
things that happen in our
day-to-day job that are the
things that we don't like, documentation,
billing, that kind of thing.
But if you can use systems
thinking and technological literacy,
like again, my day job,
we have an AI scribe and people like,
I don't know if I'll switch.
And I just look at these
people and I don't,
I do not try to convince anymore.
I'm just sitting there.
I'm old enough now to say,
you do realize that there's
not a person in three years
that's not going to be
using one of these.
And maybe I'm even wrong in
terms of saying three years.
It's probably going to be sooner.
But these people who are
going to hang on and be the
last bastion of writing
manually because they want
to prove that they're going
to do it old school way.
I mean, I'll date myself again.
I edited radio commercials
with a razor blade and
scotch tape and reel to reel.
Now I was like,
that was the very end of that.
Like immediately while I was
learning that I was learning digital.
And I learned it because the
old guy there said,
this is the right way to do it.
And I remember thinking, okay,
if he says it, I'll do it.
And then I played with a
digital editor and I was like,
I'm gonna need you to
explain why this is better.
And it was better because it
was nostalgic to him.
And that was the way,
and he didn't wanna let go
of that change.
I know plenty of older
people who are very adaptable to change.
This is not an age thing.
This is a mentality thing.
This does not be like me
trying to be anti-ageist,
which I would like to be.
But if you're seeing this
old person not able to adapt,
it's because they have a crappy mindset.
These things are not
correlation and causation.
And that's fine, too,
if someone just doesn't want to learn.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
I'll date myself back in
nineteen ninety nine.
I was an aide in a physical
therapy department and I
would physically call every
patient to remind them of
their appointment tomorrow or whatever.
Well, what happens now?
You're getting an auto text message.
We have the ability to do auto, uh,
AI phone calls now.
And these are not like pipe dreams.
These are various accessible to people.
In fact, if you're not using them,
I question your ability to
do the things on the top
right-hand corner,
which is systems thinking.
Resilience and flexibility.
Like you aren't,
you aren't taking advantage
of the tools you're waiting for the,
for the buoy to come to you
instead of you being the boat.
Yeah.
All right, we're at the half hour mark.
What's your parting shot?
Well,
I guess my parting shot would be just
to embrace, embrace the change.
I have been very forward
that I was fighting some of
the change myself.
And now that I have embraced the change,
I find that it makes my life a lot easier.
So instead of sitting here
racking my brain about a
specific task I have to do, I usually say,
is that something I can run
through chat GPT and make
my life easier and save me
an hour of time so I can
move on to something else?
So if you just learn to look
at this core skills list in
twenty thirty and not go, well,
that stinks, but instead say,
in what ways can I start to embrace this?
I think it's going to make
everybody's lives easier.
I agree.
I was going to have a very
boring parting shot,
and then you made me think of something.
Bruce Lee,
for the younger people in the audience,
was an actor, martial arts expert,
left the world a little too soon.
I do know Bruce Lee.
Was killed accidentally on a movie set,
ironically.
But he had a great quote, which was,
be water.
And his whole idea was like,
you can fight water.
it's hard like fighting
through water if you've
ever tried to swim fighting
the water do you're gonna
lose so his his whole idea
would be water which is
like work with it right
understand understand what
environment you're in if
it's water and figure out
how to move through it
maybe running trying to run
through water isn't going to work
But if I get into a good swimming position,
I can move through water,
work with the water.
Work with it.
The water in this scenario,
on this chart anyway,
looking towards the future
is all the different ways
the world is turbulent and
waves are coming and it's changing.
Yeah.
I mean,
have you ever done whitewater rafting?
I have.
Yeah.
And what do they tell you if
you fall out of the boat?
Don't stand up.
Correct.
You go with the flow.
Yeah.
Right.
So if you stand up,
you're going to get hurt.
You're going to get your ass kicked.
Yeah.
All right.
We're back next week, same time,
but you can take a listen to your podcast,
PTA Plus Podcast,
one of the very few focused
hosted by PT for PTAs.
And you're also headed to the future of
Rehab Therapy, F-O-R-T, the APTA event.
Drew Contreras is spearheading that.
Future of Rehab Therapy Summit.
It's a lot to say.
We'll put the link in the
show notes for that.
That's going to be Washington, D.C.
A lot of these things and
these skills that are being
talked about right now will
be on display in full view.
So check out APTA,
their website for Future Rehab Summit.
Katie Sutton.