YouTube conversation (Robert Ta + speaker) advising how to use AI without outsourcing thinking. Main recommendation: apply critical thinking first, use AI for divergent ideation, and structure communication using five influence styles (assertive, credibility/bridging, teamwork/deal-making, inspiration/story, rationale/data) to prepare presentations and executive communications.
How to use AI without getting dumb. Because you literally will become dumber if you don't do this. When I use AI, I think to myself, what do I want out of this? If I'm just offloading my thinking. Like somebody asks me a question and I'm like, oh, I'm just offloading.
Don't do that.
Catch yourself. That's a bad habit. You're becoming stupider if you do that. First of all, apply some critical thinking. If your teammate asks you something about how do you have exec presence or how do you do exec communications or how do you do public speaking so.
Well, what I could have done is just been like, go to.
Chatgpt, all right, how do I do this? No, I am the expert on this.
So I think to myself, have you.
Heard of influence styles? That's something that I apply to all of my communication. It's people are influenced by assertive. Hey, I have credibility bridging. So that's teamwork, negotiations. I'll do you a favor. You do me a favor, I'll give you a deal. Inspiration, which is people are inspired by a story or a narrative. And then there's rationale, which is data. And then I said, using that framework, make an AI prompt to say, hey, I'm preparing for public speaking gig or presentation. Can you use these five influence styles to help me guide the 30 minute agenda? Basically, use your brain first, then go to the AI for more divergent thinking. For ideation, you're the expert.
