Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer on Having a Vision, Approaching Insurmountable Challenges, and Authenticity

Adam Cheyer (0:00)

There are a lot of decisions you make in life, and you never know, you know, could I, should I have done the other thing, taken the other job or gone to the other path. But I really believe if I follow this process and I'm true to myself, there's no way I can't succeed.

Michael Gervais (0:28)

I'm going to try to catch them all.

Great. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn, to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. And this conversation is loaded. We're working to understand what they're searching for, how they understand the world, their craft, people, how they make sense of events, how they think about the future. And all of that is their psychological framework, which is really the basis for how they'll be able to approach difficult and challenging things. And then we also want to dig under the surface and be able to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft along the way.

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Now, this conversation is with Adam Cheyer. And if you have an iPhone or familiar with iPhones, you're familiar with Adam's work. He was the co-founder of Siri. And it was one of the first products that landed in cell phones that you could ask questions to the cell phone. Siri, tell me a joke. Siri, what's the weather? Siri, and you can go on and on. And when we talk about this, there's a humility that Adam has about Siri. And there's also a really rich understanding that he knows that there is so much more that Siri and other products that involved AI can do. And that's what brings us to this conversation is he's also now the co-founder of Viv. And if you're not familiar with Viv, go check him out online. It's viv.ai.