Your Mind Can Create Using The Same Process As AI
Woman sketching a business plan on a placard at a creative office
gettyFour short months ago, when China launched DeepSeek, its new AI chatbot, the effect on the U.S. stock market was profound. Hardest hit was NVIDIA Corporation, the leading supplier of hardware and software for DeepSeek’s entrenched American competitors— OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama, and Anthropic’s Claude. NVIDIA lost almost $600 billion in market capitalization and its share price plummeted 17%. As this Forbes article reports, DeepSeek also started a price war among its Chinese AI competitors: ByteDance, Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba.
What shook up all these constituencies was DeepSeek’s revolutionary AI architecture with a secret sauce called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) a vast simplification from the single giant neural network called Large Language Model (LLM) used by ChatGPT, Llama, and Claude.
Both MoE and LLM provide users with the ability to manage access to a huge corpus of digital information. But your mind is capable of doing the same with a huge corpus of human information. With or without AI, whenever you set about to generate, organize, and create information—whether as text or spoken—you must access a huge corpus of information in your brain. So in the spirt of National Creativity Day, this blog will provide you with a very simple four-step process to do that—and to become more effective when you create.
Fundamental to all the steps is an understanding of the basic concepts in Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow in which he explains that the human mind functions in two distinct phases.
If you start to develop your presentation, report, or email with Slow Thinking factors such as logic, sequence, and word choice (or, for that matter, the color, style, font, and design of your slides) while your Fast Thinking is bubbling up all those random ideas, the whole process descends into disarray.
The key then is to allow the Fast Thinking to run its course before attempting to impose a sequence with Slow Thinking. So, control your Fast Thinking with these four steps:
Now and only now are you ready to organize and sequence your content.
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