The mental models that made you successful in the pre-AI era aren’t wrong — they’re incomplete. When machines can analyse data faster, generate content quicker, and process information at scale, the human advantage shifts to different cognitive territory.
The New Mental Models
Systems thinking, cognitive flexibility, and the ability to navigate ambiguity become the differentiators. Not because AI can’t do these things, but because the value of doing them well increases exponentially when everything else gets automated.