In this solo, reflective video, former physician and two‑decade entrepreneur Luke Murray uses a first‑date experience to explore his own closed‑mindedness. He asks his date why she refuses to use ChatGPT for personal advice, labels her stance as "closed‑minded," and then turns the question back on himself. Murray realizes he relies heavily on AI for life decisions—ranging from dating to career moves—while neglecting long‑standing human friends for counsel. He introduces his favorite self‑question: "What would have to be proven true for you to believe the exact opposite of what you currently believe?" He applies this question to his belief that AI can outperform human advice, decides to reconnect with his friends, and plans to objectively compare the quality and outcomes of AI‑generated versus human‑generated advice. The video ends with a call for viewers to share their own moments of discovered closed‑mindedness.
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If you're a founder that considers yourself open-minded, but is also self-aware enough to know that it's difficult to see your blind spots, otherwise they would just be called spots, then this episode is for you. In it, I'm going to talk about my favorite question, the one that instantly unlocks, for me at least, where I'm closed-minded just by myself. And I'm on a first date right now, and I'm going to use her as an example of how other people can be a reflection of one of those. If you don't know who I am, my name's Luke Murray. I'm a former physician. I've been an entrepreneur for about 20 years. During that time, I've done about $100 million in revenue. Currently, I have a portfolio of companies that does about $3 million in revenue. And I make these videos because I would like to have ambition without the bullshit, and I'm guessing you would too. So again, the first date, who will go unnamed, and I were talking before we actually hung out today, And I asked her opinion of ChatGPT and she says, I don't ever, ever use it for personal advice, which is at least 60% of what I use it for. And it slays. And I was like, man, she's being really— I asked her why she didn't do this and she's like, it's just a boundary that I have. And I was like, because? She's like, because it's a boundary. And I was like, oh, because you're close-minded. Cool. I got it. And if you've ever heard the phrase, you spot it, you've got it, then this would be a perfect example of an opportunity to apply it. So I was like, hmm, I am viewing her as closed-minded. Where am I being closed-minded in this interaction? And I recognized, oh, I haven't called my friends for advice in I don't know how long. And Why would I? That seems so dumb. And I asked her why she felt like she wasn't being close-minded, and she said, well, it's just a boundary. And I was like, well, what's your definition of close-minded? She's like, well, close-minded would mean that I haven't really explored the facts. I was like, you mean the facts of all the experience you have asking this brilliant form of technology that you talk to all day long for every other reason about, I don't know if you should hang out with some weird entrepreneur or not? Anyway, I was doing the same thing. As I asked that question, as I felt and projected closed-mindedness onto her and then asked the question myself, I recognized I was the same amount closed-minded in my own way in which I was getting advice about what I should be just doing with my life in ways that normally, actually normally, since 5 seconds ago, humans have just asked other humans, What should I do? Or humans have asked other professional humans. And so I was like, oh, and I immediately then reached out to some friends who didn't call me back because we don't call each other back and recognized, man, that would really be nice. So the question that I asked myself is, what would have to be proven to be true for you to believe the exact opposite of what you currently believe? Yeah. Right now. And what I currently believe right now is that, yeah, this thing that I talk to all day long and that can beat mathematicians and solve puzzles that no one's been able to solve and make incredibly clever memes can also give me advice on if we should go on a second date or not, or if I should quit this company and start another company, or if I should I don't know, move to the Himalayan Mountains and meditate for the rest of my life, more so than my friends who have known me, of course, meaning we talk every few months for 10 or 15 years. So I am now going to reach out to them more and pay attention to the quality of the answers and objectively assess, as much as one could objectively assess opinions, which one seems to align with better outcomes in my life, and hopefully in so doing, be less closed-minded myself. What about you? Have you realized that you were closed-minded about something? And if so, I'd love to hear about it and how you discovered that closed-mindedness. As always, thanks for watching.
