Why Being Human-Ready Matters More Than Being AI-Ready with Sheena Yap Chan

So I realized that, you know, it's not about being the smartest or knowing everything.

It's really about human readiness, you know, learning to recognize, trust and act on your potential.

Because a lot of people are capable.

A lot of people have potential.

And the thing that's really stopping them is how they see themselves.

There's a disconnect with how capable you are versus how capable you feel.

So if there's a confidence gap, most people are not going to go out there and take the first step.

Or they feel like they have to know everything before they take that first step.

I was like that.

I delayed myself so many times because...

I felt like I needed to be 110% ready when really I could be 2% ready and just go for it.

And especially growing up in a culture that I'm in, I was overthinking a lot.

I second guessed myself a lot.

I would ask every single person's opinion before I take a step or I would my parents would always make decisions for me.

It was even really hard to make a decision for myself.

And so I had to work on myself a lot too, because trauma plays a huge role in our life, right? A lot of people want to build confidence, but they don't even realize what's the root cause as to why they feel this way.

For me, before anything I started, anything I wanted to start, I always felt like it was going to be an instant failure.

And that was because in the Philippines here, I failed kindergarten for coloring outside the lines of a photo.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, it's a true story.

I was given a photo to alert.

Sheena, I'd been in trouble.

Yeah.

I mean, being in the Philippines back in the day was very conservative.

So it's like I was given a photo to color.