AI unleashes your potential in proportion to both your spikes but also your valleys.
Your spikes are where you have access to greatness.
Your valleys are the intellectual gaps that hold you back.
Previously, our spikes were the greatness we could reach, but we were fundamentally held back to the level of our valleys.
But now, LLMs can fill in any of our intellectual valleys with 90th percentile skill.
If you didn't have many spikes, it doesn't do that much for you; just brings you up to the same 90th percentile everyone else can now access.
Previously, your valleys held you back.
Now they don't.
The people who are most turbo-charged by AI are the people who have great spikes but also very deep valleys.