The muscle you’re not using
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The tool didn’t make you better. It made you faster. Those are two very different things, and the difference matters more than most people realize.
I caught myself doing something last week that bothered me for days.
I was writing an email to a potential partner. Important email, high stakes, the kind where the framing matters. And before I’d even finished thinking about what I wanted to say, my hands were already moving toward a prompt. I was going to ask AI to draft it. Not to check my draft, not to tighten something I’d already written. To think for me. To do the part that I used to do, the part that used to be the whole point of being a writer and a communicator and a person who builds relationships through words.
I stopped myself. Closed the tab. Sat there with a blank screen and wrote the email myself. It took longer. Probably twenty minutes instead of three. And it was better, because it sounded like me, and because the act of struggling through the phrasing forced me to clarify what I actually wanted to say, which turned out to be different from what I thought I wanted to say when I sat down.
That twenty minutes wasn’t wasted time. It was thinking. And I’d almost skipped it.
