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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Build detailed mental representations of your own successful

Build detailed mental representations of your own successful performance conditions with sufficient granularity to serve as replicable templates.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Expertise Through Deliberate Practice (expertise builds mental representations), Expertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking (expertise changes chunk size), and Expert performance in complex domains requires deliberate… (deliberate practice requires specificity). This principle prescribes self-modeling precision that follows from axioms about expert performance development.