How to Think

Each step is one lesson of Jay West's How to Think curriculum at howtothink.ai: one idea, one example, one thing to do today, where it goes wrong, and how to make it stick. The first two modules work for anyone. After them, four one-tap answers choose the modules for what you want back first and for where AI sits in your work.

What you finish with

• A capture habit on one anchor, and a 15-minute review that turns captures into decisions
• Notes that hold one idea each, with an address and their context, so a person or an AI can find and reuse them
• The module for what you want back first: your time, your focus, your decisions, or a team that runs without you
• The module for where AI sits in your work, from no AI yet to agents you supervise by exception

The modules

• Get it out of your head. Your head holds about four things at once. These seven steps move the rest somewhere you can see it. Open to anyone.
• Make it something a person, or an AI, can use. Notes that hold one idea, with an address and their context, are what a colleague or an AI can find and reuse. Open to anyone.
• Get your time back. Chosen because you want fewer interruptions first.
• Fewer open loops. Chosen because you want your focus back first.
• Decide better, faster. Chosen because you want better decisions first.
• A team that runs without you. Chosen because you want a team that runs without you first.
• Before any AI tool: agents are a way of thinking. Chosen because AI is not in your work yet.
• Make the AI you chat with useful. Chosen because you chat with AI now and then.
• Make the AI you use every day reliable. Chosen because you use AI every day.
• Run agents without losing judgment. Chosen because you already run agents or automations.
• Think as a team. Chosen because more than ten people work from what you know.

Who it is for

Anyone who thinks for a living and is still the place the thinking lives: owners, operators, team leads and builders. If you run a business, Out of My Head applies the same ideas to the questions your team brings you; the two courses point at each other.