Just as good parents let bored kids sit with that boredom so they develop curiosity and creativity, people need to sit with the discomfort of not knowing something rather than immediately resolving it with AI.

4:59are running around saying, "I'm bored. I'm bored." But good parents will let their kids sit in that boredom and figure out what to do with it. They explore the curiosities. They get interested in building things with Legos or learning about electronics or doing art or making up stories. But all of these things that children spend their time on result in better critical thinking skills and better ways

5:17to just sit with themselves and in this discomfort that is existence. And when you immediately get answers back from an AI, you're completely robbed of that opportunity to sit with the discomfort. And then again, over time, you'll reach a point where you're not even capable of functioning without that immediate guidance from AI. And so, I'm back to my previous point. You're basically going to become a puppet for the owner of the

5:39AI model. And anytime you feel like some task is bringing you discomfort, you'll immediately reach for the AI baby bottle instead. Now, the last thing AI is stealing from you is determination and problem-solving. Solving difficult problems requires persistence, experimentation, and recovery from failure. Not everything happens instantly, and you only develop those abilities through deliberate practice. And so, if AI is handling every single difficult step for you, you're not building those skills to

6:05be able to handle those things on your own. Now, there was a study from 2014 called productive failure in learning math by Manu Kapur. And for this study, they had two randomized controlled trials with high school students learning math. One group was taught the concept by a teacher first and then solve problems after, and this is known as direct instruction. And the other group attempted to solve the

6:24problems first, failed, and then they received instruction after struggling with the problems. And the key finding was that both groups achieved the same level of procedural knowledge, but the students who struggled and failed first developed significantly greater conceptual understanding and ability to transfer to novel problems. And the number of different solution attempts students generated during the failure phase predicted their learning outcomes. So, the students who struggled didn't

6:47just learn different things. They generated their own representations and solutions, even wrong ones, and those wrong attempts activated prior knowledge and created mental structures that made the eventual instruction from a teacher land more deeply. And so, the failure itself was the preparation. And that's kind of the other thing that I'm I'm getting at here is that AI is literally stealing the ability for you to develop your brain. The way that we learn and