This is Part II of a two-part series. You can read Part I here.

If you feel like you have too many mental tabs open, then read very closely because I'm now about to give you the rundown on how to use AI to overcome analysis paralysis, rumination, and mental chaos that stands between you and your goals.

In the first part I briefly covered my rationale for turning to AI to help me focus better, along with how I went about creating a solution that 10xs my brain power.

If you haven't read it yet then go read that one first, then come back to this.

If you followed the steps from Part I, you will either have created your own custom GPT or you will have gotten access to CerebriX (my custom GPT).

In the 2nd part I'm going to show you exactly how to 10x your focus, and break through cognitive plateaus that are holding you back from taking meaningful action.

The real magic is not in AI itself. It’s in how you apply it to your daily life.

You must use AI to analyze your behaviors, and have it provide you with relevant and actionable insights.

We covered building a custom AI tool in the first part because it is extremely important that you don’t rely on the slop that standard Chat GPT would normally give you.

It is essential that you use something that understands your world view, your process, your learning style, etc. This is why you created a manifesto (or some other position document) to sit as the foundation of YOUR personalized AI tool.

Since you’ve done that, you can now move on to using AI basically as a focus amplifier.

From this point, you need three things:

This leads me to module 4, which is all about creating the process…

I prefer 60-day systems.

Why 60 days? It takes about 60 days to break out of old ways and form new habits.

60 days is short enough to commit to extreme focus without total burnout

It’s just long enough to let new ideas and ways of living to fully bake in

30 days is too short, and most people will fatigue in 90 days. So I live by the 60-day transformation ideology.

But it's up to you to figure out a structured approach that works.

I've had several periods in life where I had massive breakthroughs in skill or understanding, and I reverse engineered those processes because I know they work.

About a year ago I read a book called “Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career” which reinforced the idea that the human brain has the capacity to rewire itself faster than you can imagine. 

In one example, the author of the book spoke of his experience going from speaking basically no German, to becoming fluent in just 3 months.

So the key takeaway here is that with the right structure, you absolutely can change the brain’s default mode of operation. And you can do it FAST. This entails three core elements:

Element 1 - A very, VERY, strong motivation or “why” 

Element 2 - An intentionally designed process with a logical sequence

Element 3 - A deeply immersive environment conducive to “flow state”

If you don't read any further, remember this.

These three elements, when sequenced properly, WILL literally turn ADHD into a superpower. 

Because one of the most notable traits for anyone who has an overactive mind, or is ADHD-adjacent, is hyper-fixation.

Where there is a lack of ability to focus on many things, there is also a tendency to channel all attention into a singular thing. This can be a constructive or a destructive force, depending on how you use it.

Without a system, or structure, you’re far more likely to channel your focused attention into random things that probably don’t serve your greater purpose.

But with a properly designed system, you’ll channel energy to hyper-focus on life-changing initiatives.

So before you bring AI into the equation, first focus on creating a system that channels your energy into the right place.

Your action: Create a process that incorporates all three elements to channel scattered brain energy into constructive focus.

Firstly, make sure it’s time-bound. 30-days, 60-days, 90-days, 6 months.

Make sure the first step of that process entails setting a goal and doing inner work to establish your “why.”

Then lay out, a step by step sequence that takes you from current state to your end state. You can create your own process or repurpose a process that someone else created. For almost anything you’re trying to do, someone most certainly already created a process, so there’s no need to re-invent the wheel if you don’t want to.

Lastly make sure that you immerse yourself in an environment that unlocks “flow state.”

I realize that the concept of flow might sound wishy washy, but it is a very real and powerful thing. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” is a mandatory-read for anyone not familiar.

By immersing yourself into a flow-inducing environment you’ll significantly increase your brain’s ability to focus on what matters most while turning attention away from things that diminish your focus.

If you need inspiration for your own process, here’s a screenshot of my 60-day protocol (The Executive OS). You can create your own or join the other high-functioning professionals who’ve signed up to my protocol.

Now that you’ve created a process, you need to set regular interaction touchpoints.

This means producing qualitative and quantitative information that your AI can use to analyze behavioral trends, and patterns.

The simplest way to do this is to carve out pre-defined spaces throughout your process to note down your thinking, your challenges, your successes, etc.

For example, the first day of The Executive OS includes establishing non-negotiable rules that one must follow for the full duration. This is qualitative data that gives CerebriX what it needs to make pointed analysis.

It also includes a daily tracker that adds a quantifiable element into the mix as well.

Your Action:

Create recurring data-capture mechanisms throughout your process which can be fed to AI. This includes journals, trackers, and any other formats that you prefer.

Have your custom designed AI tool (or CerebriX) analyze the data across relevant dimensions such as:

Its your call. There’s no “correct” way to do this, so long as you do it with intention.

This final piece is probably also the easiest because you’ve already done most of the heavy lifting.

In this phase you simply want to interpret the findings and apply them to your daily life.

For example every week I run my “AI touchpoints” through CerebriX to get real and actionable insights.

In this case, it picked up on a mid-day energy drop and recommended that I not use mid-afternoons for deep work (this is when context-switching is high for me).

This makes me far less likely to slip into distraction loops like doom scrolling, chronic indecisiveness, task switching, rumination, etc.

This means less brain power dissipating into the ether so I have more energy to focus on things that REALLY matter to me: business, health, human connection, etc.

Your Action: Stay consistent and stick to your process honestly.

Commit to your recurring touchpoints.

Apply the AI insights and recommendations to your daily life.

Double down on what works. Drop what doesn’t.

Use the periodic feedback to tailor your actions, document your actions (qualitatively and quantitatively), use your AI tool to generate insights, apply those insights …. etc..

As you can see this is an iterative process, but it’ll help you to quickly close unnecessary mental tabs, and refocus your mind on your highest priority actions.

Just as using computers and the internet are basically pre-requisites for functioning in modern society, I believe that using AI will also soon fall into this category.

But computers and the internet have been a double edged sword leading most of us towards increased distraction and mental clutter (social media, endless notifications, etc).

On the other hand, tools like computers and the internet have also helped us to amplify our mental output … but only when used intentionally.

What I just laid out is a process intentionally using AI to amplify mental output.