People regularly using AI at work experience a drop in strengths use and a higher risk of burnout.

AI disrupts flow when you're a passive rather than active user of it.

How to create a simple AI Strengths Map to help you actively collaborate with AI.

Is using AI making your work faster, and your days a little emptier, at the same time? Is it limiting your creative outlets? Taking away chances to solve problems with a teammate? Leaving you feeling, if you're honest, just a little dumber?

We surveyed more than 800 Australian workers, and those regularly using AI at work doubted themselves far more than those who used it rarely (53 percent versus 37 percent), used their strengths less (38 percent versus 60 percent), and were more likely to feel burned out (49 percent versus 32 percent). Confidence and well-being drop when we have fewer opportunities to do what we do best at work—use our strengths.

This is because when you’re able to use your strengths to tackle tasks at work, you experience the state of flow. You become deeply engaged in the work you’re doing, proud of what you’re accomplishing, and are left energized and satisfied. It’s the feeling you get of being “in the zone” or “one with the music,” and it is where your best work happens.

Using AI tends to disrupt your flow state. Studies have found AI........

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