Are YOU Ready For The Next 5 Years? AI vs. Wellness

Guys, the world is changing very rapidly these days. Texas is a blue state. The robots are inevitably going to take over. And the next crazy ass thing that happens in the news is not even going to seem crazy to me anymore. And I've been doing a ton of traveling these days, obviously all around Asia, occasionally back to America. And I'm seeing the versions of these same shifts all around the planet, guys. Yes, I know at one time... It used to be like this bubble was so different from that bubble, but nowadays due to tech, social media, globalization, whatever you want to call it, things are starting to shift on the same wavelength, especially the international zones. Yes, I get it out in the rural areas. Those places seem stuck in time to some extent, but I'm just talking about New York to Shanghai, Shenzhen to Silicon Valley, a lot of the same trends. And I've got five bets for the next five years, okay, until 2031, and I'm going to start breaking down some... words that you're probably going to start hearing. And, you know, I'm also going to break down how you as a regular person, I'm a regular person, can take advantage of these things because you can believe that the rich people in the world, the ultra elite people are not only investing in these zones, but they're probably building in them too. So it probably helped for you to know about Prediction number one, guys, wellness will become a part of your social life. And I'm not just talking about saying hi to your buddies at the gym. I'm talking about on a very, very deep level. It's gonna be like taking up A huge portion of your discretionary income, discretionary spend. Listen, according to some predictions or calculations, the wellness market is currently twice as big as the market cap for AI. That doesn't even sound right, right? Because AI is supposed to be the technology that completely transforms the way we live. But think about this, guys. Even your great-grandma... wants to feel better she doesn't care about compute she doesn't care about semiconductors or token burn or whatever you know she cares about feeling better why else do retirement homes even exist if you think about it Retirement homes were like the OG wellness community because it was designed to give people wellness during a time of life where a lot of people feel unwell. So who doesn't want to feel better? Who doesn't want to have better health? Who doesn't want to just wake up and regardless of what they did or did not accomplish that day, they just feel good because their dopamine and their serotonin is releasing, but not artificially, but because their body is operating good. You know what I mean? Cause think about it. We're all the own CEO, board of directors and major shareholder of the corporation of ourselves. You know, if nothing else, we are the major sole proprietor of ourselves. So let's talk about modern wellness right now, right? So for hundreds of years, people have known what the basic recipe is, right? Sleep, Movement or diet, right? But it may have been difficult due to the way society was structured of just like dads working too hard, blue collar jobs to actually get those things. But people have known that those are the basis of wellness for a long time. However, in 2024, now we've got saunas, cold plunges. Temperature-controlled beds, the whole peptide rabbit hole, hyperbaric chambers. Now we can go even to the next level of stuff that most people haven't even heard of, right? VNS, neuromodulators, gyms. They went from just a regular weight scale to body fat, obviously with the InBody and the VisBody machines. Now we're talking about VO2 max and even more advanced biomarkers. We're talking about blood tests for things you've never even heard of, things your GP, general practitioner, doctor never heard of. You guys remember hot import nights in the JDM AZN tuner culture, you know, fast and furious. Your body is now like a Civic SI hatchback. Everybody wants to mod it. And guess what? In America. It has to look cool, it has to feel cool, and it needs to be like the popular kids at the lunch table. It needs to kind or be exclusive with a relatively high barrier to entry. Like sweating is going to need mood lighting, it's going to need an app, a founder story, QR code tracking. Everybody wants the Alo Yoga of everything. That's premiumization. That's a marketing term, right? I call it the Alo-ization or the Kardashian-ization, you know? Pick a Kardashian, the one that suits your flow the best, you know? You know, that's just me, though. Guys, other ship in New York City just did a collab event with Tinder for singles. So now you can meet somebody while you're freezing your ass off in a cold plunge. And guess what? you guys for sure will start off on the right foot because you both want metabolic androgenic optimal health like Brian Johnson. In China, guys, they have those 24-hour spas, you know, there's like places to rest saunas all these different types of things, it's called shui guo because The main thing that you eat there is fruit, shui guo. But basically, you don't have to organize a bunch of events for, you know, you and your friends to go to. Nine of you guys can just go to a 24-hour spa, and it's just AIO all in one. That's what people are looking for nowadays, service bundling, you know. And basically, more and more people are going to spend a larger and larger pie slice of their going-out budget going to these things, you know what I mean? And not only that, it's not just your going-out budget on a monetary level. It's your going out budget on a timeline. you know because everybody only has 24 hours in a day no matter how much money you actually have in the bank so wellness is in right but it's going to need a premium cool Kardashian Skims wrapper on it right and I'll tell you this, it's going to be like dating, where the looks get you interested, but there still needs to be substance. It still needs to actually make you better for a brand to actually have consistency in this game or in this sector that is up and coming, obviously, right? Because before I spent $6,000 on a bed, like eight sleep, I'm cranking up the AC colder. Well, I'm cranking down the AC. You know, I'm asking why I'm on the phone at two in the morning and the bed cannot put the phone down for me. But realistically, it probably will be able to in the future, but it'll be a robot droid butler. So how can you play this trend? I think that basically everybody's going to want to feel better in the future, but it's going to look different for different people. You need to know how much luxury you need for something to develop adherence. Some people. If they get a Planet Fitness membership, they're gonna go more than if they go to Equinox. For other people, going to Equinox is the motivation they needed to go to the gym more because they already spent the money, it's a sunk cost, it's a better environment, there's hot people around, you know what I mean? There might be tighter rules around this or around that. So basically, what I'm saying is everybody has different triggers and... Everybody's gonna want to feel better, but you've gotta understand your triggers and not the triggers you think you should have because you're like, this is the avatar I inhabit in society. And then this avatar typically has these triggers. I'm talking about you. You can be a mismatched, jumbled up, sugar factory candy bag of mismatched candies, wants and desires, okay? I mean, you could fit into an archetype, but I'm just saying that everybody is going to want to be a part of wellness on some level because basically, instead of focusing Focusing on just getting money And accomplishments that's supposed to bring you some sense of like superiority or satisfaction. You know, you're going directly to the core. Your agentic metabolic feelings around serotonin and dopamine and endorphins and norepinephrine. Prediction number two, guys, obviously this is not a hot take. Everybody knows this that knows anything about anything. AI is going to start handling more and more of your life. Our parents said, get a safe degree, get a safe job. But now a computer is applying for the same job and it works harder than you. And guess what? It never gets sick. I'm just so impressed by the science fiction writers, guys. So many of them got it right on the money, at least eight out of 10. And this is like 20, 30, 40 years ago. And I guess... I think for most people, unless you lose your job to AI, it's going to make people's lives better at least for like 10 to 15, possibly 20 years. I don't think this like scary Matrix Terminator scenario that everybody's thinking about is even going to be something that people really, really need to worry about for another 15, 20 years. I just don't think so. I just have seen the tech up close and personal. I could be wrong if we're all robot slaves. Seven years, then my bad, guys. But basically, what I'm talking about is agentic AI, right? Like, I saw a study that said only 2% of Americans are paying for AI right now. And of that 2%, even a smaller percentage are running the agents, right? So I just think that that is going to be so important. I had, like, a light I needed to return. The RMA return form was, like, so tedious. If I didn't have agentic AI fill it out for me, guess what? I wouldn't have a film light again. Like I literally was just not going to do it. So here's what you could do, guys. When it comes to agentic AI, you just got to find your version of how it can help you. You know, what information does it need? What does the finished thing look like? What do you need to check? And then you just need to break it into steps and have, you know, AI help with the task decomposition. That's an industry word, right? Basically just breaking down the steps. And, you know, like I said, guys, AI is going to happen with or without you. I recommend this. That you go move with it. Prediction number three for 2031, the America-China competition gets more physical. Now, when I'm talking about getting physical, I'm not talking about hot war versus cold war. I'm talking about something that is even more relevant for the next 20 years, supply chain war, or supply chain rivalry. And yes, guys, there is the rest of the world, but honestly, if you just really look at where the main engines are and you extrapolate the trends out, There's just pretty much the US and China, and that's really it, moving the world forward in critical fields. If your understanding of China is whether, and here's the truth, guys, everybody in the world literally understands America way better than it understands China. So if your entire understanding of China is just basically one reason or another of why you're supposed to be mad at it, you know you're just gonna miss what its companies can do and dismissing america can get you blind spots too like if you just think it's this empire and terminal decline that's not fully the truth either even though that sounds like a hot headline that is obviously going super viral on social media right now look at shenzhen guys you've got components tooling factories Engineers all in one place. And they got the Shenzhen speed because they're all in a cluster together. They're all in industrial clusters together. However, America still has clusters of its own. America has a lot of brain clusters because America still, as crazy as it sounds, has the highest standard of living in the world right now. And they pay the most money, you know. So America is able to get a lot of the best workers from a number of countries from around the world. China pretty much just only has Chinese people. Also, capital clustering. America has access to like trillions of dollars of liquid investment. That can blow up a sector super fast. China has trillions, but the access to capital is not nearly as easy as it is in America. America has access to large sums of capital and access to it quick if it needs to deploy. What is my prediction? Guys, as far as America, China goes, I think that... As much as the media wants to play it more on the enemy side, I think it's going to be way more on the friend side of frenemies. If you want to use the word frenemies, I think that it's going to err more on the side of frenemies in the next five years. Because America just doesn't really have any factories. It doesn't really have any magnets. How are they going to get the actuators? You need the actuators to be the robot muscles. Anyway, guys, here's my prediction. It's going to be droids over human robots. but it might be a droid that is designed in America but manufactured in China, ultimately being the droid that breaks the market open. Sort of like the iPhone broke open the market for smartphones, it was just the first one that was the easiest to use for your grandma and for your mom or whatever. It's gonna be a droid that is non-humanoid. I think right now we're thinking a lot about humanoid robots, but I think it is gonna be a wheeled or a legged Droid, more like R2-D2 that is going to become the first consumer robot that most people have in their house that makes a family's life better. So here's my prediction. There will be a droid like R2-D2 robot. It has to do with robot morphology. I just don't think the humanoid robots that are shaped like, you know, two legs, two arms are there yet, but it's going to be designed in America, manufactured in China. And that is going to be the first robot like It is like the first iPhone that breaks open the market. Here's what you can do in regards to the America-China relationship, guys. I just think you got to go to China on a tour and see the high and see the low and see the east and see the west and just understand that China is not just Nanshan and it's not just Nanto. If you look at Shenzhen, so let me break it down for you guys if you guys don't know. So there's this city called Shenzhen, right? It's going to become the most important city in the world that you've never heard of. And long story short, you You know, there's an ultra-modern part that feels like the year 3000, that's Nanshan. And there's a part that's like 700 years old and feels like the 1980s in some parts. It's called Nanto. Both Chinas are real, okay? But you got to understand that basically... But you just got to understand that both Chinas are real. They're both relevant because probably your favorite thing is going to be designed in Nanshan, but it's going to be manufactured in a place that looks more like Nanto or Bao'an or just something even, you know, far out. Old-school Dongguan-looking place. I mean, even Dongguan's looking more modernized these days. But basically, follow a product that you care about deeply, right? Let's say, for example, you're an e-bikes guy or you're an e-scooter guy or you're into vacuums or whatever. You know, I know a lot of people in America are into, like, robot lawnmowers because America's one of the only places where people have gigantic lawns, right? Australia, maybe. But I'm saying that, like, basically, understand the supply chain. of how your device was designed and actually manufactured. I think that that's a great way to start because I know I used to be really into e-scooters when I was riding them around New York City and I didn't even know that the E12s were made, you know, designed in Shanghai and then made in Zhejiang. So I think that realistically, everybody who runs a business can just sort of understand where they fit in the puzzle between China and the US. I get it, you could run something super hyper-local to your, you know, individual 10 20 30 mile radius so you don't think it's a big deal but i just think that you know understanding your position in all this matters a lot more than going on IG or X and just debating about which country is winning the future because it's just way more complicated than that and plus on a super macro level it doesn't even matter you don't control that you got to worry about your situation Prediction number four, the protein slop bowl gets better tasting and everybody starts to like it. Guys, it took 20, 30, 40, 50 years, but it seems like everywhere around the West and even in China, people are going against the food industrial complex. People are asking why the food pyramid had to be inverted. People are asking about food safety. Where does this really come from? Why is everything delivered by Cisco systems? And I remember Super Size Me came out like, I don't even know, two decades ago, but it just didn't really change behavior until just this year. And now Jack in the Box has a protein bowl and Taco Bell has a protein bowl and Sweet Greens used to do salads that were somewhat healthy, but were covered in cream sauce. And now they're doing protein bowls. So basically we're talking about protein, roasted vegetables, a base, a sauce. So more places are just leading with the protein first, rather, you know, and now they're just competing over whose version actually tastes good. Now, this is where the private equity play comes in A lot of private equity is buying out these chains, right? Because they can make it more efficient and a lot of people feel some type of way about that. But what I've noticed in 2026, and I'm sure in the 2027 and forever, is these private equity spots are still bringing in hipster chefs now because they know that old style, you know, like chopped salads, you know, they taste chopped. They're not good. People want... The stuff that's designed by a world-class chef, but still hits the macros. And I'll tell you why this prediction is true, right? Not only because a lot of people, anybody who works in food knows this is true, but it basically has to do with GLP-1 medications because people are spending less on groceries and it's completely changing their consumption habits. Little. In ego impulse, back of the brain, lizard brain, amygdala thing is not as easy to control anymore because essentially the dopamine signal receptors have been plundered. There's this concept of glocalization. It's globalization and localization at the same time. And I would describe that protein slop bowl in China. Because in all the major cities, there's this brand called Supermodel. It's funny, right? Supermodel. And basically it is roasted veggies that are done dig in style or like, you know, some healthy version of British Sunday roast style, right? Which is more of a Western style. But in China, they're covering them with like Xinjiang cumin or like, you know, Sichuan peppercorn or like some sort of soy sauce to match whatever regional profile taste flavor that people want. And the glocalization means that it's still a protein whole foods bowl at the end of the day. But obviously, it's been localized with the seasonings of that country. So right now, guys, we're just on protein frosted flakes. We're at protein slop bowls. People call it protein slop, right? But I do think it would be really interesting to see if somebody throws billions or potentially even trillions of dollars behind the idea of taking all these great Instagram recipes that you see on TikTok and you see from all these high-protein chef food creators. If people are actually able to mass produce those at a high enough quantity, at a low enough price, that's when I think you would start to see gigantic shifts in the society. I'm talking about, you know, the sweet potato revolution, you know, a rice paper wrapped cheeseburger. That to me is gonna be more impressive than the Jack in the Box, you know, protein slop bowl. But that is a step in the right direction. So what can you do during the whole proteinization of everything, guys? Basically, you can understand nutrient ratios, you can understand what you can afford, you can understand if cooking at home is better, you got an air fryer, you got an instant pot, you got a steamer, whatever floats your boat, guys. I mean, long story short, you could live a very, very healthy life that really doesn't taste too bad if you only ate like ground beef and rice with different sauces on it or chicken and potatoes with different sauces on it. Of course, still go out to eat, enjoy yourself with your family, but at least like two out of three meals. Try to make it for yourself, guys. Like, that's just the way you're going to save on your finances, but really, most importantly, save on time and health. Like, I would rather buy Whole Foods from Walmart or Aldi's than buy a cookie or a smoothie from Whole Foods or Erewhon. Because at the end of the day, yeah, that cookie might have a nice little story behind it. It's still a cookie from Whole Foods, and it's still a smoothie with coconut cream and date sugar from Erewhon. By all means that Whole Foods cookie is good and it's healthy compared to a crumble cookie. And here's my fifth prediction guys. I think that people are going to start thinking a lot about neuroplasticity and the last thousand decisions they made in a sector or an aspect of their life. There has been so many advancements in terms of behavioral change, thought patterns, why we think the way we do, how to break those patterns of thought in the past couple of years. And I'll tell you this, guys, you can agree with everything I just said, and it still changes nothing. A lot of people buy the membership, you know, they download the AI, they save the recipe, and then they go and just do the same thing that they didn't want to do tomorrow. So here's my prediction, guys. More people are going to start deeply studying why they keep doing what they do. and why they know the better input but for some reason they can't do it to get the better output. me guys i just started day trading i know what i'm talking about you know some people they want to catch a bounce they fall for the first head fake then they fall for the second hezi after the head fake and they know they shouldn't they know they should be patient and watch for confirmation but they just don't because they don't have the neuroplasticity on lock plasticity means that your brain can change with learning and experience Your current patterns. Aren't necessarily permanent in older generations. It's true. Especially, you know, the older Asians around us. They probably didn't have a lot of neuroplasticity. They that it was inelastic. OK, it wasn't very elastic. But we have the research now. We have AI. We have all these tools. We got neuromodulators. We can do it. I see people talking a lot about choice architecture, how you set up your life to make it easy to make good decisions. to accomplish your goals. And I see a lot of people questioning why they do what they do. You know, is it because of your upbringing? Is it because of your tribe? Is it because of some middle school trauma? Are you trying to fulfill your avatar's trait card? You know, we all subsume these different avatars in society and there's all these stories and mythologies and fairy tales and stereotypes that we tell ourselves. And as much as we wanna break them, a lot of times we end up living up to them or feeling like we subconsciously have to fit into that box because it's more comfortable. So like I said, people are going to start thinking about why they made the last thousand choices with their finances that they did. The last thousand choices with the food that they did. Was it the choice architecture? Was it some sort of story they were telling themselves? Was it actually intentional? You know, I get it guys. Listen, family, social status, culture, luck, mythology, it all matters. You know, even two kids within the same house sometimes have wildly different outcomes. I do know kids in a family that are like all the same Just due to their parents. instilling a very, very consistent operating system and like almost military-like system on everybody. But I know other ones where everybody turned out super different. And that brings us to the topic of epigenetics. You know, epigenetics are basically changing how cells use genes without rewriting the actual DNA double helix. So basically, you can change genes without rewriting the double helix. And that was something that people did not believe until like five years ago, maybe 10 years ago. You know, there is an old wisdom saying, saying that apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. But the ground matters too. Where are the grooves? Which way does everything tend to roll? Was the tree on a hill that was slanted to one side? So like we said, all that is even being studied. But at the end of the day, guys, repeated decisions that you make with your own self-agency, obviously utilizing neuroplasticity, still come into play, guys. It's not easy to be the fish that leaves the school of fish. That the fish is in and swims against the tide and ends up somewhere it's statistically improbable to end up. But it happens. It's scientifically, mathematically possible. You see it all the time. Why do the orcas end up like over here? You see it, you know, it's not a lot of orcas. ending up in this water, but occasionally it happens. So listen guys, the system can screw you over, but also you can make decisions that make your situations worse. Both things can happen and both can be true at the same time due to the thousand decision theory and neuroplasticity. So what you can do guys in understanding the thousand decision theory and neuroplasticity is just know that your thoughts are not actions. It has to do with the last thousand actions that you took. Yes. Thoughts do often lead to actions, but there's not a one-to-one correlation, you know? Because a lot of people, they think about ambitious things, but that's the difference than taking ambitious actions every step forward. So the best way that a regular, non-Elon Musk, non-whatever person, right? can apply neuroplasticity is just understand that we can sort of slowly figure out how to rewire our own brains and our brains control our actions and our actions determine our futures and our pathways that we take in life. Anyway guys, those are my five predictions for the next five years. I truly believe that the elites of the world are not only investing in these sectors but they are actually proactively building them and the reason why I made this video is because I wanna tell you guys to get ahead of it. Now, some of you guys may already have known this stuff or, you know, you may have heard about it, obviously, in tertiary ways in the news. But I'm saying, look, guys, all of this is going to converge in the future at some point, more than likely in some sort of like Iron Man mask, a halo helmet, you know, whatever you want to call it. You know, it's funny. The manga anime Akira. Predicted all this in like 1982. That's when the manga came out and the anime came out in 1989. Akira is Kanye's major inspiration for almost like most of his fashion. So all I know is that guy Katsuhiro who invented Akira was really, really special because he predicted some stuff. And I'll tell you guys this, this AI Iron Man Jarvis helmet is already being developed in Shenzhen and Dongguan right now. There's like 20 AI glasses companies. Right now, Meta Glasses 3 doesn't even have the screen pop up yet. So, but that's coming. I think it's coming in the next one. And then you pair that with an exoskeleton. People are going to be able to download the Kobe gameplay package where they're going to be able to move exactly like Kobe Bryant for $8,000 in a download with the exoskeleton, you know, that's called multi-modal AI. That's AI that works with pictures, speech, and text. But soon we're going to add the physical exoskeleton on top of that too. And yes, I'm sure the version V1 of this Halo helmet Jarvis is going to look pretty rudimentary. But eventually it will be Kardashianized. Kendall. or Kylie or whoever is going to endorse it just like they do Meta Glasses and people will use it to cook food and they'll be able to use it to scan the macros on their food and it'll be designed in America but manufactured in China just like the Micro Duck and basically all five of my predictions that I just said are all going to come into play in the convergence of the Akira mask and of course last but not least we can't forget the inevitable monthly subscription that comes along with this AI mask Minority Report future that we're looking at. I mean, I think that that's naturally where we're headed. And it kind of goes back to my first point about the science fiction writers being about 75, 85% correct. Man, those guys were some geniuses. Anyway, guys, those are my five bets for 2031. I'm seeing versions of all this stuff take place around the world. I've been spending time in China, deep in the supply chain, in the Pearl River Delta, Greater Bay Area, Bayside, which is Silicon Valley. So, you know. The Greater Bay in Guangdong. And, you know, what do you guys think of my predictions? Am I right? Am I wrong? Which ones do you agree with? Which ones do you disagree with? Let me know in the comments section below. You know, I'm just a YouTuber. I'm just a thinker. And I think for you guys. Until next time, guys, let me know. I'm out. Peace.