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Does AI Make Clever People Stupid

Does AI Make Clever People Stupid?

1 December 2025 By Larry Maguire Leave a Comment

I delivered a half-day AI session with Bernie Goldbach to a group of supply chain students in Kemmy Business School at UL during the summer. I stressed to them the fact that if they use AI to do the work for them, they learn nothing. Their time studying, if only to obtain a piece of […]

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EP012 How To Build Self-Confidence

19 November 2022 By Larry Maguire Leave a Comment

In this podcast episode, I’m reading Chapter 3 of Stewart Cotterill’s The Psychology of Performance and discussing the difference between self-confidence and self-efficacy. Throughout this reading, I interrupt the narrative to offer my own input, clarity on certain aspects, and tips and advice on how to build up your sense of efficacy.

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Dual Process Thinking In Peak Performance

23 March 2025 By Larry Maguire Leave a Comment

Dual-process thinking is a fundamental concept that explains how our minds process information and make decisions through two distinct systems. Understanding this concept of mind can help us develop the mental skills required for peak performance. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman proposed it in his groundbreaking work “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” This influential theory reveals the […]

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Introduction To AI & The Future of Work

24 November 2025 By Larry Maguire Leave a Comment

Welcome to AI & The Future of Work, a weekly newsletter at the intersection between AI technology and people at work. I’m Larry Maguire, work & business psychologist, lecturer in work and organisational psychology, and writer. Before psychology, I spent 20+ years in the electrical business, security systems, home automation and systems integration. Technology and […]

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Psychological Time How We Create Our Own Reality

Psychological Time: How We Create Our Own Reality

14 November 2025 By Larry Maguire Leave a Comment

Psychological time is the subjective experience of past, present, and future that shapes how we perceive ourselves and our possibilities—yet it is not a window onto objective reality but rather a construction of human consciousness. Practically everyone you know carries this invisible architecture. Regardless of their circumstances, this experience contains at its base an unexamined […]

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