Thinking for yourself making important life decisions.
Growing up in Maine, my parents old me and my three older brothers to always make good choices.
Every mistake was a lesson and you can’t just sit still to learn anything. A lot of lead, follow or get out of the way.
But just don’t rely on your laziness to take you very far in small town rural Maine.
The pros and cons if you do this, that or nothing at all applying simple home grown life skills in small town rural Maine.
It always boils down to what is the best solution when this happens and formulating your well thought out plan.
You can not just ask Chat for the best answer for you when parked at a cross roads.
Having lots of patience and learning from what did not pan out so well the last trial and error experience thinking for yourself, growing up living in Maine.
You have to have a plan, you need a system.
Today people flock to quick and easy, down and dirty answers to life’s mystery problems.
Or ask AI for everything from what to eat for dinner suggestions to where to visit in Maine for a long three-day weekend.
All formatted nice and neat in a row with bullet points for anything that comes to mind perfectly arranged in a list.
But in my job dealing with buyers and sellers, I witness a lot of AI slop being circulated in Maine real estate circles.
But long before reaching for AI, consulting with chat, perplexity, Claude or whoever digital app, there was family.
The grapevine down at the corner store or gas station.
Where you stop in for a fresh brewed hot and ready coffee.
We’ve always had plenty of options to gather other people’s opinions in small town Maine.
Local newspapers, radio and television broadcasting public and private opinion outlets in Maine debating the hot topics on everyone’s mind.
You go to local town hall or school auditorium public meetings and forums.
To hammer out solutions with a grass roots approach to the issues. Always the best way for just how to address the hyper local grass roots around your solution answers needed for small Maine town community.
How do you find yourself using AI today?
In Maine real estate buying and selling, the what should you do has always been a very personal decision.
Timing timing timing has taken over for the location times three real estate mantra everyone knows.
Staging your property and pricing it in line with the local current real estate market in Maine.
The price, so much of it depends on where in Maine are we talking in Vacationland.
And what and when to make price adjustments along the way come into play as local markets.
So back to AI in your daily diet of what you consume.
How dependent are you and do you take whatever is spit out as always gospel advice form AI sources? AI is a resource; it should not always have the last word.
Does your original work and natural curiosity suffer when it’s ask a question, copy and paste the AI answer happens?
Remember Monarch Notes, Cliff’s Notes to supplement when you don’t have time to read read read a book for tomorrow’s homework assignment?
Was it a regular remedy to reach for or like a five hours energy kick in the pants for inspiration used once in a while?
Average, predictable out of the box like just add an egg, some water and instant pancake mix.
It’s food, looks okay. It’s a pancake you still lather with real or artificial maple syrup.
But at the end of the day, doesn’t what gets served up for answers get pretty predictable and boring?
Pre-packaged for convenience and that offsets the loss of full flavor.
Maybe the improved taste is beyond the carefully measure ingredients that go into creating the what’s for dinner.
You are just glad to have an easy meal choice when over booked and out of time.
But saving time offsets the loss of taste. AI is an option but still synthesized and we all know.
“Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby.”
Fire in your belly, excitement and enthusiasm comes from home grown, roll your own not copy and paste.
Living in small town rural Maine, everyone learns to improvise, to attack, to keep a positive can do spirit burning brightly fire in your belly.
How are you using AI?
The same concerns that over reliance on GPS is reducing you paying attention to the natural surroundings or reading a map skills?
Like forgetting how to make change when the scanner figures out the cost of goods.
Heaven forbid if you give the fast food work an extra nickel and two pennies to help them make change.
Common sense and meat and potatoes simple hard truths and realities still work in Maine. Hardworking Mainers dig in and hunker down.
Not copy and paste AI their way out of predicaments. The ones usually from not being prepared and relying on an AI bot to help save the day.
There was a time when common sense was all you had to bring to the kitchen table meal time discussion to bring it all home.
Reduce it all down for the short list of solutions to common everyday problems living in small town Maine.
Often take it or leave it were your only two choices. But it sure cut down on the pulling and hauling tug of war verbal debate.
AI is the buzz word everywhere and I know original thought, persistent local information never goes out of style.
When finding it is harder and harder to find with so much quick answers and copy it, paste it surrounds us for the easy way to look and sound like a local authority.
I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
