Mental Outsourcing

(Note: This is an AI-assisted teaser for my prior manual writing. If you like it and want to read more details about this topic/perspective, then check out my 100% manually-written blog and books!)

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AI can answer your questions, but it can’t build your brain for you.

It can help direct you towards productive practice, but it can’t do that practice for you.
You have to do it.

Your own thinking is the part that actually changes your brain.
That’s the part that strengthens the mental connections that let you do tasks at higher quality, faster, better.

If AI does all the thinking, then it gets all the practice.
You get the answer, but not the skill – and not the knowledge to know if the answer actually makes any sense.

Use AI to check your thinking.
Use it to challenge your thinking, to expand your thinking.
But don’t let it replace your thinking.

Here are the 100% manually-written long-forms that this teaser is distilled from, if you want to dive deeper:

• You Can Only Outsource The Thinking You’ve Already Thought
• You’re going to be sharing your pie with AI, and your feelings about this will depend on your ability to expand the pie.

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