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AI Isn't Making You Dumb. Here's How To Make It Make You Smarter.

Free guide: the three moves from the video, with full copy-paste prompts for Claude and ChatGPT that make AI pull your thinking out instead of doing it for you.

  • Why AI feels like it's making people dumb, and what's really happening
  • A full prompt that makes AI interview you before it writes anything
  • A full prompt that turns AI into a thinking partner, not an order-taker
  • A full prompt that makes AI show its work and argue with its own answer

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Three moves to use AI so it makes you think more: have it interview you, ask it questions instead of giving orders, and never take its first answer. Full copy-paste prompts for Claude and ChatGPT.

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What's Inside

Why AI feels like it's making people dumber, in plain English Move 1: a prompt that makes AI interview you before it writes anything Move 2: a prompt that turns AI into a thinking partner, not an order-taker Move 3: a prompt that makes AI show its work and argue with itself

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The Think More Guide

You commented THINK.

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Why it feels like AI is making people dumb

For a lot of people, the process was the whole job.

The rest of the guide

  1. Move 1: Have AI interview you firstThe lazy way: "Write me a sales email for our new service." AI fills every gap with guesses, and you get something that sounds like everyone else.
  2. Move 2: Ask questions instead of giving ordersOrders get you answers.
  3. Move 3: Never take the first answerAI's first answer is its most average answer.
  4. Make it automaticYou can set AI to work this way in every chat, so you don't have to paste the prompts each time.
  5. Roll it out to your teamThe people on your team who were only following the process are the ones AI exposes first.

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