May 19, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Most organizations are approaching AI the wrong way. Conor Grennan, founder and CEO of AI Mindset, argues that AI adoption is not primarily a technology challenge—it’s a behavioral and leadership…
Connor GrennanGuestJennifer ColosimoHost
They were treating it as if it's something you have to learn, which is, by the way, the history of technology.
Like, your brain-- You can't just, like, skip to the end and say, "Okay, now I've got it." But what we found was that AI had nothing to do with that because there's nothing to learn.
People keep thinking you have to learn how to prompt, and our argument is prompting is literally talking.
This is literally like texting a person that knows everything, nothing more, nothing less.
And the reason it's hard, in a nutshell, [clears throat] excuse me, in a nutshell, is that p- the brain, the human brain, has a very hard time looking at software and understanding that this is software that behaves like a person because we've never seen it before.
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They were treating it as if it's something you have to learn, which is, by the way, the history of technology.
Like, your brain-- You can't just, like, skip to the end and say, "Okay, now I've got it." But what we found was that AI had nothing to do with that because there's nothing to learn.
People keep thinking you have to learn how to prompt, and our argument is prompting is literally talking.
This is literally like texting a person that knows everything, nothing more, nothing less.
And the reason it's hard, in a nutshell, [clears throat] excuse me, in a nutshell, is that p- the brain, the human brain, has a very hard time looking at software and understanding that this is software that behaves like a person because we've never seen it before.