King Moves: AI, Entrepreneur Success Lessons, Business Growth Tips, Personal Development & Insights for Ambitious Leaders Is AI Making You Dumber? | Ep. 126
Apr 7, 2026
A candid look at whether outsourcing thinking to AI is making our minds lazy. They debate scheduling device-free thinking time to spark real breakthroughs. Practical tips on using AI as a prompt engine, not a replacement, and simple daily habits to keep your brain sharp. A challenge to resist efficiency as an excuse and create space for deeper, messier thought.
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Schedule Device Free Thinking Sessions
- Block regular device-free thinking sessions on your calendar to force deep cognitive work.
- Ethan recommends pen-and-paper thinking blocks with no internet and notes his coach made him do this to reach higher-level insights.
Human Creativity Still Beats AI For Novel Ideas
- AI mainly remixes the past and lacks human imagination, so deep human thinking still yields novel combinations.
- Ethan argues human creativity lets us pair unrelated ideas in ways AI cannot, making personal thinking superior for innovation.
Defaulting To AI Short-Circuits Deep Problem Solving
- We default to outsourcing problem-solving to AI, which can short-circuit the mental wrestling that produces deep opinions.
- Justin warns many immediately turn to LLMs to form paragraphs instead of sitting with hard problems themselves.
