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AI can give you answers in seconds. But let me ask you something honest. When was the last time an answer alone gave you clarity ? Most leaders today are not short of answers. They are short of clear thinking under pressure . And pressure is exactly where AI doesn’t help as much as we hope. I work with leaders, managers, and professionals across different industries. Almost all tell me the same thing, quietly. “Andy, I have more data than ever. More dashboards. More AI summaries. But decisions feel heavier, riskier, and more exhausting.” They are not confused. They are overloaded . Emotion creeps in. Fear of making the wrong call. Fear of accountability. Fear of speed. That’s not an intelligence problem. That’s a thinking problem . In the AI age, thinking is no longer about getting answers. It is about: framing the right problem reading people and situations accurately knowing when to act — and when not to AI can assist. But judgment still sits on hum...

How to Think Better in the AI Age (Without Becoming Dependent on AI) In the AI age, thinking better is not about becoming smarter. It is about becoming less lazy with your mind . AI will happily think for you. Your job is to ensure it doesn’t replace you. Here are easy but effective ways any ordinary person can improve thinking—no jargon, no PhD required. 1. Delay the Answer (Don’t Ask AI First) The biggest damage AI causes is answer addiction . Before asking AI anything, pause for 60 seconds and ask yourself: What do I already know? What don’t I know? What assumptions am I making? This short delay activates your own thinking muscles. Rule: If you ask AI immediately, you outsource thinking. If you think first, you use AI properly. 2. Turn Answers into Questions When AI gives you an answer, don’t accept it. Instead, ask: What is missing? What would make this wrong? In what situation would this fail? Who would disagree with this? Good think...

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein. Indeed thinking is the starting point of all actions.  As a manager, supervisor, director or leader, it is important that you improve your people's thinking.  Even more important is to ensure that your people think before they do. Most people would rather die than think. Many think that they think, when in fact they are just echoing others' thinking.   Many employees are very good in doing work - executing instructions, following orders and making things happen. The only problem they have is what they do could be all wrong, because they are based on wrong thinking. For example, most people are still very process-oriented and not outcome-oriented. Like when they come for training, their most important concern is the training process: how the training is conducted, whether notes are given, parking availability and so on. If they can ...

There are 5 things that every trainee is looking for in an external training program: Enhance their thinking , for it is the thinking capability that determines our work performance. That's why most trainers like to ask provocative questions to broaden the minds of the trainees.  Sometimes to make an impact trainers would purposely give the wrong information to ' wake people up ' Get Inspiration and Motivation .  As we know, the typical working life is full of stress and people usually get motivated when it's time for bonus or increment.  The fact that trainers help trainees to see things from another perspective will inspire people to do more.  Furthermore, trainers are external professionals that have no personal interest in the trainees, thus they can offer motivate people easily without being mistaken as phony Get Solutions to their Problems.  This is a very common and useful outcome of training, where trainees get answers to their current work proble...

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind Andy happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable. In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters himself and minds the law. An un-reflecting mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Give up the old ways - Passion, enmity, folly. Know the truth and find peace, Share the way. As shared by AndyTheCoach from reading the teachings of The Buddha some 2,500 years ago.