10/16/2026
Dont ask AI to do it for you, ask AI to help you think through it...
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Picture a forty-person services company deciding whether to raise prices. You can hand that decision to AI in one sentence, or you can make it question you.
The shortcut is typing, โWrite me a pricing memo.โ You get a polished page in seconds, and youโve thought about almost nothing.
Flip the assignment. Paste in your rough notes and say, โAsk me one question at a time about this decision. Donโt write anything. When my reasoning is complete, tell me what still looks thin.โ Then answer in your own words. By the end, you know what you believe.
Close with one more request: โSummarize my position in three sentences.โ If you donโt recognize your own thinking in those sentences, you arenโt finished.
Use this before any memo, hire, or strategy decision that matters. The tool will happily draft the document afterward, and now it has something real to work from.
Researchers call the shortcut cognitive offloading, handing the mental work to a tool. Handing off a calendar invite is smart. Handing off the reasoning behind a pricing decision is how you lose the ability to make the next one.
This is the first of three moves in this weekโs article.
https://aibusinesslab.ai/how-to-use-ai-without-losing-your-ability-to-think/
