How To Think With AI: A Simple Guide to Boost Your Brain Power, Creativity, and Performance - Hardcover

McCauley, Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0998042064 ISBN 13: 9780998042060

Publisher: Collins and Cross Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

"It's like my brain got an upgrade."
"It transformed how I solve problems."
 
Make AI Your Competitive Advantage: How to Think with AI is A Human's Guide to Getting AI to Work for You

A revolution in human capability is here. AI-enhanced people are rewriting the rules of human performance. As these early adopters raise the bar, everyone watching from the sidelines is suddenly operating at a fraction of their potential. It's not because they are less capable. It's because they haven't plugged into the extraordinary cognitive powers now at everyone's fingertips.

What separates those achieving breakthrough results with AI from those left behind?
Social scientist and digital transformation strategist Alison McCauley spent a year researching hundreds of early adopters to decode their secrets of success. She transforms these powerful insights into a clear, proven framework that anyone can use to turn AI into their cognitive advantage. If you are still trying to understand how to use AI or you haven't already discovered how to get meaningful value out of AI, How to Think with AI is for you.

Early adopters have already discovered how to weave AI tools into their daily lives, using them to test ideas, expand their thinking, and tackle complex challenges that once seemed insurmountable. They'll tell you AI is a wildly powerful technology that helps them create and perform at a level that was impossible just a year ago. They'll say it's an imaginative, creative thought partner—that it's made them a better manager, thinker, entrepreneur, learner, parent, or partner. That they can't imagine life without it.

Far more people struggle to find meaningful ways to wield AI.

Countless brilliant minds—executives, managers, educators, entrepreneurs, and leaders across every sector—are missing the opportunity to amplify their impact with AI. Whether you are looking to use AI for business or AI in your personal life, How to Think with AI guides you on a journey to jump up the AI learning curve.

In these pages, you will also find a framework that guides you on a learning journey to use AI to enhance your own creativity and performance. The framework transforms the chaotic, time-intensive experimentation of early adopters into focused, purposeful exploration that consistently produces "aha" moments and lasting breakthroughs, regardless of your age, profession, or technical background.

Don't get left behind. Turn your human edge into digital advantage by learning How to Think with AI. This isn't about using AI as a substitute for your own brain. It's about mastering a new kind of collaboration that amplifies your creativity, accelerates your learning, and multiplies your impact. Whether you're a business leader, manager, partner, parent, entrepreneur, or educator, this book gives you the practical framework to harness AI as a powerful ally in pursuing your goals.

In How to Think with AI, you'll:
 

• Discover how AI can boost your creativity and brain power-while preserving what makes you uniquely human.
• See why AI will reshape the landscape of success-and why falling behind isn't an option.
• Get a practical, step-by-step guide to make AI work for you.

This book is perfect for AI beginners, and also includes a chapter full of advice to help managers and their teams to learn how to use AI to boost team creativity and performance.

How to Think with AI is the fastest way to quickly come up to speed on AI. It's like an AI 101 for beginners that comes complete with exercises that take you so much farther than ChatGPT basics, to introduce you to a range of tools that will help you learn how to quickly use AI in your life.

Step into a new era of human performance. Welcome to Thinking 2.0, where you combine your natural intelligence with machine intelligence to redefine what's humanly possible.

About this title

About the Author

Alison McCauley is a social scientist and digital transformation strategist dedicated to advancing human potential. Working at the nexus of the enterprise and disruptive innovation, she has guided executives through tech-driven change for over two decades. A best-selling author whose insights appear in Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Alison is an in-demand AI keynote speaker at conferences worldwide and her executive education course on LinkedIn has reached over 100,000 learners.

Alison began her career at the leading edge of change management as the field was first coalescing into a formal discipline—a transformative period that revealed how profoundly human behavior and culture shape technology adoption. This early immersion became the foundation of a career focused on helping organizations to advance performance, including a decade working with AI pioneers.

Alison's commitment to making emerging technology accessible to all continues in her current role as Chief Advocacy Officer of Think with AI, where she empowers people—regardless of their experience or background—to enhance their unique capabilities through AI. She is also founder of Unblocked Future, a strategy firm focused on accelerating the effective adoption of transformative technology and unlocking the business value it creates.

She is deeply committed to how technology can advance the future of work, create more sustainable cities, enhance human health and wellness, and strengthen meaningful connection in our digital world. She holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Organization Design and Development, both from Stanford University.

From the Inside Flap

What separates those achieving breakthrough results with AI from those left behind?

Social scientist and digital transformation strategist Alison McCauley immersed herself in studying hundreds of early adopters to decode their secrets of success. She transforms these powerful insights into a clear, proven framework that anyone can use to turn AI into their cognitive advantage.

In How to Think with AI, you'll:

• Discover how AI can boost your creativity and brain power—while preserving what makes you uniquely human.
• See why AI will reshape the landscape of success—and why falling behind isn't an option.
• Get a practical, step-by-step guide to make AI work for you.

Every day you wait is a missed opportunity to boost your brain power. Begin your transformation with How to Think with AI.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins and Cross Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998042064
• ISBN 13: 9780998042060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180