Coaching the Father of the AI Assistant to Get More People Reading and Living His Book | Kevin Surace | Ep 1099

From Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong Niiamah Ashong

"You start with joy, and that's how you get success, not the other way around." - Kevin Surace

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Kevin Surace for a live coaching conversation. Kevin is known as the father of the AI virtual assistant, the person who created the predecessors to Siri and Alexa, and he holds 95 worldwide patents, runs mostly AI companies and gives about 40 keynotes a year. His book The Joy Success Cycle, with a foreword by Goldie Hawn, came out September 1, and he's going for a million lives impacted.

You'll walk away with:

- The one-complaint-a-day rule, and why you control your own positive quotient

- Why AI isn't taking the joy from your work, it's taking the joyless work

- How to engineer reach by trying what nobody else has done

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live

00:35 - Father of the AI Virtual Assistant

02:00 - Curiosity as the Throughline

04:29 - Always Inventing

09:54 - Seeing What Others Don't

12:55 - Great Companies Without Patents

14:38 - The Joy Success Cycle