How to Think Clearly In The Era Of AI: Full Course (5 Hours)

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➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.

Uploaded 02-09-26

In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.

It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.

I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.

As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry.

That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.

From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.

Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more.

Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.

It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!

Summary ⤵️
This is the Clear Thinking Course, a magnum opus I put together over the course of the last few days where I dumped everything that I know about thinking clearly and making effective decisions into one place

This course represents around a decade of my life of learning various thinking techniques on both the hardware side, e.g. biological optimizations, and software side, e.g. thinking techniques and rationality principles

You will learn about things like expected value methodology, Bayes' theorem, the planning fallacy, local and global maxima and minima, the power law, the chain law, exploration versus exploitation, and more!

I hope you enjoy.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:49 What this course covers
5:02 How to take this course
6:05 The biological basis of cognition
11:19 Why your brain is stingy with energy
14:13 Working memory and the four-chunk limit
16:32 Chunking and meaning
23:21 The rats and enriched environments
32:08 What willpower really is
36:01 Asymmetric bets
45:30 Nobody is designing this for you
46:16 Choice architecture
48:37 Defaults and organ donation
54:07 Finding the defaults in your life
56:48 Friction, the golden rule
1:03:40 Optimizing your hardware
1:05:32 Sleep, nutrition and exercise
1:07:39 Check for a sleep disorder first
1:15:14 Cutting caffeine
1:20:16 Bloodwork and deficiencies
1:22:52 Cutting alcohol
1:26:07 Protein, fiber and creatine
1:28:34 Rais

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