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<strong>Becoming great at listening (3 minute read)</strong>
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Your job as a listener is to consume decades of someone else's experience in minutes. This is impossible if you are busy mentally scripting your reply. The secret to world-class communication is to treat listening and thinking as mutually exclusive states. Turn off your analysis engine completely while they speak. When they finish, ask for a "thinking pause." That awkward silence is the only way to truly synthesize reality before you act on it.
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<strong>Think First, AI Second (4 minute read)</strong>
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We are starting to see the long-term cognitive cost of "AI First" workflows: our brains are literally disengaging. An MIT study found that students who used AI at the start of a task showed lower neural activity and memory retention than those who did the work themselves. The fix is not to ban AI, but to change the sequence. Always force yourself to draft the structure or outline before you open the prompt window. By treating AI as a "Devil's Advocate" that critiques your existing thoughts rather than a generator to create them, you keep your cognitive edge while still leveraging the speed of the model.
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