TJ Walker argues against both blindly trusting ChatGPT and ignoring it entirely. Most people make decisions through unstructured thinking: re-reading emails, asking friends, Googling. A systematic approach to using AI as a tool, rather than a crutch, produces better outcomes.
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If you use ChatGPT to make all your decisions, you're going to get worse at thinking. And if you avoid using it completely, well, you're going to fall behind people who know how to use it properly. That's the trap. Right now, there are millions of smart professionals doing one of two things. They're either outsourcing their brain or they're refusing to use one of the most powerful thinking tools ever created. Both groups are making the exact same mistake. They don't have a system for thinking through decisions. Think about how you actually make decisions right now. You stare at an email, you reread it 3 or 4 times, you think about it in the shower, maybe you ask a friend, you Google it, you get back to the email, and yet you still don't feel confident. That's not lack of intelligence, that's unstructured thinking. And unstructured thinking leads to slow decisions, inconsistent decisions, and often bad decisions. Ultimize.