More Information only Strengthens the Strongest Link
Seeking information is great, thinking on it is greater, and acting on it is greaterer.
The use of AI or seeking more info on diet or working out. Every personal trainer knows the feeling when asked repeatedly on the best way to work out or best equipment to purchase so they can start. Every dietician asked for the perfect diet or supplements to shed pounds before they start their journey. We want the magic supplements when wer’re supplementing trash. We use AI for more info when we’ve put little thought into the question ourselves. We want a triangle defense before we understand the triangle. Habits over data and knowledge.
What is it you DO know that you’re not acting on already? What techniques or concepts have we not put into practice before seeking the next? Before we ask our personal trainer for tricks, have we committed to and acted upon ANY form of exercise consistently beforehand?
We can’t let the information bombing take our energy from our application of it. We need to restrain ourselves from leaping to the next when things aren’t comfortable with what we have at hand.
There’s never been more information readily available to us, and that’s damn beautiful. But we can’t let information overload take the place of putting the work in. We can’t let AI hinder our thought processes and means of getting to our answers. It’s not the regurgitated worldly info that improves our grappling ability as much as the internal problem solving to find connectedness and nurture creativity. Getting an instant “answer” to a question temporarily removes our hunger but doesn’t build our internal processing. AI is giving us the fish without teaching us how to fish. It’ll still feed us but doesn’t strengthen our ability to think creatively and problem solve in the moment, and the many more moments to come. We should expose ourselves to what we don’t know, but also dig into what we already do. Before we check youtube or chatgpt we should think through the problem as if the help didn’t exist. Ditch the trivia expertise and embrace the deeper understanding.