321. Work With AI Without Sacrificing Your Growth

The OptimalWork Podcast

#321: AI can produce better work in seconds—but what happens to the person doing the work? Kevin and Sharif explore the hidden cost of outsourcing challenges that build skill, judgment, and character. Drawing on Aquinas’s distinction between making and doing, they examine what separates AI assistance that supports growth from shortcuts that bypass it. From student essays to professional work, they show how AI can help people reflect, weigh options, and engage difficult tasks while preserving the thinking, choices, and effort through which they grow. Find more at https://OptimalWork.com

About Podcast

Hosted by Dr. Kevin Majeres and Sharif Younes, co-founders of OptimalWork, The OptimalWork Podcast will help you learn to challenge yourself in each hour of work according to your highest ideals. We discuss all aspects of Dr. Majeres's approach to work, which he developed in his private practice and teaches at Harvard Medical School, and show how it applies to everyday situations like professional work, study, sleep, and relationships.

For personalized plans to help you put the ideas into practice, visit www.OptimalWork.com.

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