ABOUT THIS EPISODE
We are drowning in advice about AI. Upskill. Adapt. Stay ahead. But underneath all of that noise is a question nobody seems to be asking: what is this actually doing to us?
Psychotherapist Michelle Mah works with high-performing professionals navigating exactly this - and what she's seeing in her practice isn't a skills gap. It's exhaustion, dysregulation, and an identity crisis that the productivity conversation keeps skipping over.
In this episode, we get into AI anxiety, the psychological cost of being asked to change at machine speed, and why the "adapt or fall behind" message might be making things worse - not better.
TIMETAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
01:58 - "Adapt or fall behind"
07:43 - How this anxiety is different from anything before
10:55 - The identity threat underneath the career threat
18:33 - What we should never outsource to AI
21:41 - AI influencers & content
24:35 - Will AI replace therapists?
27:46 - Trust as the new economy
31:13 - Michelle's thesis: what will hold through every disruption
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Website: https://thecuriousbonsai.com.sg/
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