Lori HarderFounder of glōci | Bestselling Author

Stay In Your Zone of Genius With AI

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker B explains how many routine, low‑skill tasks—email, bookkeeping, cleanup, and problem‑solving—are "junk work" that consume a person’s peak creative energy without generating revenue. They introduce the concept of operating within one’s "zones of genius," the activities that attract attention and generate ideas, and warn that crowding these zones with tasks you’re not good at dilutes their impact. Speaker A adds that AI can remove much of this junk work, suggesting that starting with the most tedious, unwanted tasks is a free way to reclaim time for higher‑value work.

You know how like there's all that junk work that you just never want to do?
Oh, hell yeah, every day. Your email, it's cleanup, it's bookkeeping, it's problem solving. What people don't realize too is the junk stuff is usually the stuff that you don't know how to do well and that you hate. So you're using your peak energy of the day, your peak creative energy, on things that are not even making you money at all. We have zones of genius. It's the thing that will bring the most eyeballs, it's the thing that will bring the most ideas. When we get crowded with all of the other things we're not great at, we just get those.
AI is getting rid of a lot of that junk stuff. And if you needed no other reason than to want to do it, start with the dumb stuff that you just don't want to do anymore. Talk about free. That's where it gets free.