How I Use AI to Enhance My Thinking and Writing Process
And how you can use it too!
Artificial Intelligence has become an invaluable tool in my creative and intellectual workflow. However, I don’t rely on it to generate ideas or provide information on important topics. Instead, I use AI as a structuring and refinement tool—a way to organize my thoughts, challenge my assumptions, and streamline my writing.
AI as a Thought Organizer
One of my primary uses for AI is taking spoken ideas and transforming them into structured content. I often dictate my thoughts into a microphone, generating a large volume of raw material. Rather than spending hours manually sorting through it, I let the AI help me categorize, refine, and sequence my ideas into a more coherent structure.
I never ask AI for the idea itself—all the original thinking comes from me. Instead, I use it to:
Sort my concepts into a logical order.
Ask me clarifying questions that refine my reasoning.
Point out potential contradictions or areas needing further verification.
If I research a serious topic using AI, I treat it as a starting point, not a final authority. Anything the AI presents that I can't independently verify, or that doesn't align with my existing knowledge and expertise, gets discarded or investigated further.
AI as a Writing Assistant
When writing a book, structuring the content for maximum clarity and impact is one of the biggest challenges. A book may have dozens of main points, each with supporting arguments, exercises, and applications.
Unlike working with a single client—where I can tailor the order of ideas to their specific needs—a book requires a universal sequence that works for the majority of readers. It also needs flexibility, allowing readers to benefit even if they approach the content non-linearly.
In the past, restructuring a book draft was incredibly time-consuming. Moving sections, renaming key concepts, or adjusting terminology could take hours—with the constant risk of losing content in the process. Now, AI allows me to:
Reorganize entire sections of a book in seconds.
Update key terms consistently throughout a manuscript with minimal effort.
Test different structures instantly to find the most effective flow for readers.
For example, if I decide to rename a concept that appears hundreds of times in a 500-page book, I no longer have to manually search and replace every instance. AI does it in seconds, while I stay focused on bigger creative and strategic decisions.
AI Doesn’t Replace Thinking—It Enhances It
We live in an era where information is abundant. For experts in any field, the challenge isn’t finding more information, but prioritizing and presenting it effectively. Writing things down used to be the primary method for structuring thoughts, but AI now provides an even more dynamic way to refine and enhance our ideas.
At its best, AI acts as a mirror for our own knowledge and reasoning, helping us see patterns, organize thoughts, and eliminate unnecessary complexity. By leveraging it correctly, we can accelerate the creative process without compromising depth, accuracy, or originality.
In short, AI doesn’t replace thinking—it enhances it. The key is to use it as a tool for structure and refinement, not as a substitute for expertise, intuition, and independent reasoning.
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