Business-Strategy

Why Smart Business Owners Don't Automate Their Most Frustrating Task First?

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You know you should be doing something with AI, but where do you even start?

Every week brings a new “breakthrough” tool, another case study, or a viral post claiming to have cracked the AI code.

Your competitors are showing off their “AI-powered” workflows.

Your inbox is full of newsletters promising instant automation wins.

Using ChatGPT in Your Business Is Not Enough

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It’s happening again.

You open ChatGPT with high hopes.

You’ve seen the demos, read the success stories, watched people claim they’re “10x-ing their productivity” with AI.

You craft your prompt carefully, hit enter, and wait.

The response comes back.

It’s… okay. Generic.

Nothing like what you were hoping for. You try tweaking the prompt, adding more details, being more specific. Still mediocre.

The AI Dhandho Story: Why Small Bets Win Big

I grew up in Gujarat hearing one phrase over and over:

“Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.”

My friends would casually mention joining “bapa na business” (dad’s business) after school. Success wasn’t about taking massive risks. It was about finding opportunities where you could win big but lose small.

Years later, when I read Mohnish Pabrai’s The Dhandho Investor, everything clicked.