Hello fellow fleshies! 🥩

Today’s Well Wired dives into the eerie, the efficient and the dark existential corners of AI—from the wild techno clinics of the future to the infinite recesses of human consciousness.

First up, a Sydney medical clinic sacked four staff members in favour of one über-efficient AI bot—welcome to the hiring and firing of the future 🤖💼.

Then we break down Life 3.0, the AI classic that asks what it really means to be human in a post-human world 📘. And part of that brave new world is an AI test that can predict if you’ll benefit from a prostate cancer drug—now that’s precision medicine 🧬.

And finally, your AI assistant might be learning so much about you... it could become you. 😱 🧠

And of course, remember that Well Wired ⚡ ALWAYS serves you the latest AI-health, productivity and personal growth insights, ideas, news and prompts from around the planet. We’ll do the research so you don’t have to! ❤️‍

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Todays Highlights:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• Sydney Medical Clinic Fires Four Humans for One Bot

• Book Summary: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI

• AI Test Can Predict if Men Can Benefit From New Prostate Cancer Drug
  

• The Chilling Truth About AI Assistants That Can Become You

• This Is What Happens When Machines Start Hugging Back

• AI Took Over My Dating Life—And Somehow I’m the Problem

💡Learning & Laughs AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 💡AI Tip of The Day (The Top Traits of The 1%-ers 🧠⚔️)

• ⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋 (AI tools & resources)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (Calm is a Skill, Not a Mood 🧘)

• 🎒AI Micro-class (Recode Who You Are, One Tiny Habit at a Time ✨)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (AI And The Paperclip Apocalypse)

Read time: 6.5 minutes

💡 AI Idea of The Day 💡

A valuable tip, idea, or hack to help you harness AI
for wellbeing, spirituality, or self-improvement.

Self Growth: The Top Traits of The 1%-ers 🧠⚔️

What separates the AI-enhanced high performers from the digital drifters?

It’s not IQ or inbox zero.

It’s inner architecture.

Top 1%-ers don’t just think — they audit their thoughts like forensic accountants at a crime scene.

They ritualise clarity like it’s a spiritual mushroom matcha — non-negotiable and served daily.

And their inputs?

Curated like a digital bookshelf: no fluff, no noise, just signal.

Here’s the move:

Next time you catch yourself hesitating, defaulting, or doom-looping on a decision, throw this prompt at GPT like a ninja star:

⚔️ Enhanced Prompt – Inner Architecture Audit

What subconscious belief or hidden mental script is secretly driving this decision, hesitation, or reaction — and how is it protecting me, limiting me, or distorting reality?

Bonus prompt:

Also identify where this belief might have originated (e.g., past experience, fear of failure, social conditioning) and suggest one empowering reframe or alternative belief that aligns with clarity, courage, and growth.

Because under every delay is a hidden script.

And under every script is a scared little mind demon whispering, “Play it safe, Karen.”

Use AI to shine the torch.

Edit the belief.

Rewrite the play.

Build the mind of a legend!

Not of a lost pink sock in the sparkling white laundry of your life.

🗞️ On The Wire (Main Story) 🗞️

Discover the most popular AI wellbeing, productivity and self-growth stories, news, trends and ideas impacting humanity in the past 7-days!

AI Productivity 🌱

Thanks for Your Service, Now Train Your Replacement: Sydney Medical Clinic Fires Four Humans for One Bot

Imagine you and four workmates get called into a meeting just days before Christmas, thinking you're getting a holiday bonus, only to find out you're actually getting the boot.

All four of you, replaced by a high-tech medical AI.

That's exactly what happened to Katherine, 24, and three of her colleagues at a Sydney Inner West medical clinic. Days before Christmas, after working through their six-month probation period, management gathered them for an awkward tech-focused, profit-grabbing group redundancy.

"They basically brought us in and said, 'thank you so much for all your work here, unfortunately we found a system where we can now use AI to put through the phones that will be on hold to a natural computer AI so no one else has to pick up the phone unless they have a free moment,'" Katherine told news.com.au.

But here's where it gets crazier: after firing them, management had the audacity to ask the four women to help set up the very AI systems that were replacing them.

It's like being dumped and then asked to help your ex set up their dating profile.

The clinic's new AI system can automatically file emails, sort patient files and greet patients with a generic computer-generated message.

Efficient.

Modern.

Soulless.

Meanwhile, Katherine's dad—who works in tech—was "livid" about the whole thing, pointing out that if they wanted AI, they should've hired someone who actually knows how to code rather than making their soon-to-be-former staff do it themselves.

Katherine admits her experience changed her view on AI, but she's more concerned about AI’s use in healthcare: "These are people's lives; these are medical certificates, these are X-rays that are showing maybe they might have cancer. It's very personal and private, and if those things are leaked or if they're lost or misread, that's not okay."

Key Takeaways

• Four young medical receptionists were sacked four days before Christmas and asked to train their AI replacements
  

• AI systems are now handling phone triage and email sorting in medical clinics, but nobody's asking what happens when the bot misreads an urgent cancer referral as a routine check-up
  

• The healthcare industry is embracing AI efficiency over human judgement, despite the obvious risks when dealing with people's lives and sensitive medical information

Why It Matters 🏥

This isn't just another "robots took our jobs" story, it is about what happens when efficiency becomes more important than empathy in the one industry where human connection can save lives.

Katherine's story shows the brutal reality of how some, not all, AI implementation is happening in the dark, back corridors of industry.

There's no gradual transition or thoughtful integration—it's just “thanks for your service, here's the door and oh, can you help us set up your robot replacement on the way out?"

The fact that the clinic waited until just after the probation period and right before Christmas shows a level of calculated coldness that makes AI look positively warm by comparison.

But the real concern isn't the job losses—it's what we're losing in the process.

When you ring your GP worried about a lump, chest pains, or your child's fever, you want someone who can hear the panic in your voice and fast-track you to the right doctor for the job.

You want someone who knows that Mrs Johnson always downplays her symptoms or that young Tom gets anxiety attacks when getting his jab.

But even the best human receptionist has limits — memory, time, emotional bandwidth. AI isn’t here to replace their empathy, but to back them up with tireless consistency, instant recall and the ability to juggle hundreds of appointments without breaking a sweat.

Globally, AI receptionists are being rolled out everywhere from Zocdoc (which can handle 70% of bookings automatically) to major hospital systems building robot surgeons.

The economics are irresistible: Google AI's per-use price has dropped by 97%, making human employees look like luxury items healthcare administrators can no longer afford.

Yet while AI can diagnose your condition when fed perfect information, studies show AI struggles to sometimes get the right information from simulated patient studies.

What this means is that although robots are brilliant at following scripts, they are terrible at reading between the lines when you’re too embarrassed to mention that growth on your arm or too scared to admit how bad you really feel.

What’s Next? 🔮

If you're a patient, start paying attention to how your healthcare providers handle phone calls and appointments. Ask direct questions: "Am I speaking to a human or an AI?"

If you're getting annoyed with automated systems that can't understand nuance or urgency, find clinics that use human staff for initial contact and triage.

For healthcare workers watching this unfold, Katherine's advice is spot-on: "As a society, we need to learn how to work with AI rather than against it because you're not going to get away from this." 

The jobs that survive need skills that AI can't replicate—complex problem-solving, emotional intelligence and the ability to see beneath your skin and words to see what a patient isn’t saying as much as what they are.

The quintessential human touch!

If you're in health management adding AI systems into your business, take a note from Katherine's experience: don't be the clinic that fires people days before a holiday and asks them to train their digital replacements.

The PR nightmare alone might make you think about your approach. Instead, think about how AI can augment your human workers rather than replacing them completely.

Most importantly, demand that healthcare AI systems have human oversight.

Every automated triage needs to have a human review option.

Every AI-generated response must be flagged for urgent cases.

Every efficiency gain must be weighed against the cost of missing something critical that only a human can detect in a patient.

The future isn't about choosing between humans or AI—it's about designing systems where technology boosts human judgement rather than replacing it.

Because when it comes to your health, you want both the efficiency of modern technology and the wisdom of human experience working hand in gripper; not competing for your GP's budget.

Read the full wire on News.com.au

“If your medical clinic can save money by replacing four humans with one AI system, but that same AI might miss the subtle cues that could save your life—are we optimising for the right outcomes, or just the cheapest ones?”

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AI Book Summary  📚

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Deckle Edge

Six Bombshells from Life 3.0 That’ll Change How You See AI (and Yourself)

Max Tegmark’s ‘Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ is a field guide for what comes after humans stop being the smartest species on the planet.

It’s not a book about fear-mongering, it’s about future-proofing the new world we find ourselves in.

This isn’t just a book about tech; it’s a mirror asking: what kind of future are we really designing—and who gets to choose?

Here’s the distilled essence of the book, minus the techno psycho-babble:

1. Self-Evolving AI = Life 3.0 🧠

Tegmark defines Life 3.0 as intelligence that can redesign both its software and hardware. That means no more limits—just infinite upgrades.

Because you’ve officially stepped into a world where intelligence doesn’t just learn—it rewires itself mid-sentence. Life 3.0 isn’t about smarter apps. It’s about entities that can redesign their own minds and bodies while you’re still yelling at your router.

Imagine a jellyfish teaching itself quantum physics, then growing opposable thumbs for fun.

That’s Life 3.0.

And you’re no longer the smartest thing in the room.

2. Ethics Before Engineering ⚖️

Just because we can build superintelligent systems doesn’t mean we should—at least not without values baked in. The question isn’t “Can it be done?” It’s “Should it be allowed to decide who gets healthcare or how we define justice?”

We’re racing to build gods out of circuits, but no one’s asking if these gods have a conscience—or just a faster kill switch.

Just because you can build a mind that out-thinks you in a millisecond doesn’t mean you should let it play judge, doctor, or deity.

The real question isn’t “How smart can we make it?” It’s “Should this thing be allowed to decide who gets a second chance and who gets silence?”

Values aren’t seasoning—they’re the pan. And if you skip them, you’re not cooking the future. You’re nuking it.

It’s ethics or entropy.

Choose wisely—before your curling iron starts quoting Nietzsche.

3. Whoever Builds It First, Rules the Playground 🕹️

You’re not watching a tech race. You’re watching the fuse burn on a machine that could freeze human history in whatever shape it’s coded to prefer—forever.

Tegmark’s warning that he is whispering through the static like an oracle is: if the first super intelligence doesn’t share your values, your values are done and dusted.

No second draft.

No “pause” button.

No ethical airbag.

Just one chance to train the Minotaur before it learns how to build the maze!

This isn’t a throne grab. It’s the birth of a new referee in a game we haven’t written the rules for.

And no one’s handing out parachutes.

4. AI Safety = Global Survival 🌍

You don’t need to code to feel the tremors. One rogue AGI project and suddenly the entire planet’s strapped into a never-ending Ferris wheel built by a machine with a God complex.

Again, Tegmark isn’t fear-mongering—he’s flashing hazard lights. This isn’t about one country winning. It’s about all of us not losing.

Mass surveillance, AI-triggered wars, economic systems shredded like confetti at a debt collector’s birthday party—none of that stays in one place.

Tegmark’s plea: coordination isn’t optional. It’s the grown-up table. Because if this goes Cold War 2.0, the keyboard will become the new launch code.

5. The Future Menu Has Everything (Even Paperclips) 🔮

You’re not walking into the future—you’re taste-testing it. And the menu ranges from an AI-powered utopia where AI helps humanity flourish, to dystopias where we’re outnumbered by nanobots building paperclip factories.

Tegmark’s laid out the options: peace, prosperity, post-scarcity dreams—or swarms of nanobots hell-bent on converting Earth into a paperclip diorama.

If you’re wondering why we’re referring to paperclips, it is called, AI and the paperclip problem.

“Philosophers have speculated that an AI tasked with a task such as creating paperclips might cause an apocalypse by learning to divert ever-increasing resources to the task and then learning how to resist our attempts to turn it off.”

The future’s still blank—but we’re the ones holding the pen.

The ink? Us.

But blink too long and that pen gets snatched by a machine who believes it needs more paperclips than friends.

Narrow Window, Big Responsibility ⏳

In the age of AI, wellness and self-growth are no longer just personal pursuits—they're part of a much bigger equation.

Life 3.0 reminds us that as artificial intelligence evolves, so must our definition of what it means to flourish as humans.

True wellbeing isn’t just about meditation apps and clean eating; it’s about cultivating the emotional intelligence, ethical frameworks and mental clarity needed to navigate a world where machines may soon out-think us.

The future will reward you if you can stay grounded while everything around you accelerates—who can grow their inner software just as fast as AI rewrites the external world.

You’re in a unique moment in history: smart enough to build the future, but still wise enough to steer it.

The next decade will shape centuries.

No pressure—just the fate of civilisation.

Want the full download before AI writes its own autobiography?

📘 Grab Life 3.0 on Amazon: Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0

TL;DR? If we build gods, we’d better teach them ethics first.

Quick Bytes AI News⚡

Quick hits on more of the latest AI news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth over the past 7 days!

Key AI Wellbeing, Productivity and Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas from around the world:

Wellness: AI Test Can Predict if Men Can Benefit From New Prostate Cancer Drug

Now you've got an AI that peers into biopsy slides like an expert cancer specialist with supernatural vision, handpicking the 25% of men whose lives a prostate cancer drug called abiraterone might actually save.

“Abiraterone has been described as a “gamechanger” treatment for the disease, which is the most common form of cancer in men in more than 100 countries. It has already helped hundreds of thousands with advanced prostate cancer to live longer.“

The precision AI test is being unveiled in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. If successful, it could halve death risk and will cost around $100 per box. 🎯🧬

Wellness: Medical errors are harming patients. AI could change that.

You're in the ER, adrenaline's pumping, and suddenly the nurse grabs the wrong vial—oops, that's not saline, it's snake venom. 🐍💉 Sound far fetched? The fact is, you live in a world where medical errors are the leading cause of death—it’s called iatrogenesis. And millions die every year from it.

But now with the help of AI we’re getting closer to stopping these blunders in their tracks before they harm you. Once we get the tech right, it’ll be like having a digital safety net woven from data surrounding you.

Human vs AI: Apocalypse or Appliance? The Great AI Showdown

Two AI prophets walk into a bar: one’s clutching a doomsday scroll, the other’s waving a user manual. Will AI save us or end us? The debate you can't ignore.

Kokotajlo predicts AI will outsmart us by 2027, while Kapoor and Narayanan argue it’s just another tool—like a blender, but with deeper code. It’s a philosophical cage match: apocalypse vs. appliance.

Productivity: The Chilling Truth About AI Assistants That Can Become You

The TL;DR: You're about to get AI assistants that don't just help — they'll recreate you, impersonate you and know you better than your mom. They’ll also make life-altering decisions on your behalf.

These new productivity AI’s will feel like you have your very own Victorian butler who's also your clone. 🎭 Creepy? Absolutely. Coming anyway? Obviously. 🤖

Self Growth: AI Took Over My Dating Life—And Somehow I’m the Problem

Arya is basically Cupid with a headset and a love check algorithm. 🏹💬 For $500/month, it screens your dating apps like a bouncer at a velvet rope club, finds your potential soulmates and ghostwrites flirty replies that sound like you.

Now you can outsource your love life to a smooth-talking pick-up-artist with a relationship counselling degree and the confidence of Hutch.

Self Growth: Scientists Reveal: This Is What Happens When Machines Start Hugging Back

You're watching AI seduce society with fake empathy whilst quietly rewiring the entire value network between humans. 🧠 

Like a financial parasite feeding on genuine connection, it's turning relationships into transactions and making you question whether that hug still matters when a machine can simulate warmth perfectly. 💔 

Other Notable AI News⚡

Other notable AI news from around the web over the past 7 days!

• Researchers designed a chatbot to teach law, it kept messing up

• Why learn a second language if AI can translate for you?

• OpenAI's 'smartest' AI model was told to shut down—it refused

• Will There Be a Boom in Anti-AI, Human-Focused Startups?

• Guess who brought back Agatha Christie as an AI clone

• Traumatising AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious

⚡ AI Tool Of The Day

Welcome to your AI candy shop 🍬—but for grown-up goals. We’ve handpicked some of the best AI tools to turbocharge your brain, body and bandwidth. No fluff. Just click, boom, better you.

Wellness: CareClinic 🩺

• Use: Track symptoms, vitals, treatments, journaling.

• AI Edge: Correlation analysis between lifestyle factors and symptoms.

• Best For: Health protocol testing & reports for practitioners.

• 🔗 careclinic.io

Productivity: Scrintal 🧠

• Use: Visual note-taking app that blends mindmaps with connected note-taking.

• Unique Feature: Allows you to visually connect and organise ideas to enhance your creativity and clarity.

• Best For: Peeps who want a visual approach to organising ideas and projects.

• 🔗 scrintal.com

Spirituality: Ask the Oracle (AI Oracle) 🌠

• Use: Ask deep life questions, receive esoteric AI wisdom.

• AI Edge: Channels archetypal, symbolic responses.

• Best For: Inner work and cosmic guidance.

• 🔗 asktheoracle.app

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

🎥 Lights, Camera, AI! Join This Week’s Reel Feels 🎬

Self Growth: Calm is a Skill, Not a Mood 🧘

What it's about: Forget the woo-woo breathing apps and vague Byron Bay advice to “simply relax.” Now you can learn how to emotionally regulate yourself with code and calm. It’s like an anxiety busting Sherpa.

With five punchy, science-backed prompts, you’ll learn how to use AI to help you cruise through the chaos. You’ll name the demons in your head, reframe your inner critic, sync your breath like a Buddhist and build a daily rhythm that doesn’t make your soul itch. Ready?

⚙️ AI Edge: AI acts as a real-time mirror and mindset mentor, drawing from neuroscience, CBT and mindfulness research to help you build inner calm.

🧬 Best For: Neuro-curious introverts, wellness hackers and anxious overachievers. Or if you want you anxiety to shut up without another app.

🎒  AI Micro Class  🎒

A quick, bite-sized AI tip, trick or hack focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth that you can use right now!

Identity Alchemy: Recode Who You Are, One Tiny Habit at a Time ✨

You’re using Insta and YouTube as a self-help mentor and you’ve got dreams stacked like Jenga blocks, but your daily behaviours still act like it’s 2011.

You’re not lazy.

You’re just looped into habits that belong to a version of you that should’ve been archived a long time ago.

It’s not your ambition that’s broken—it’s your autopilot. The echo’s of your past habits are still pushing the buttons while your future self watches, facepalming into your present reality with a bag of popcorn.

Time to swap your old VHS for something sharper.

Ever feel like you're starring in a rerun—same distractions, same inner monologue, same promise to “start fresh” every Sunday?

Here’s the thing identity isn’t carved in stone.

It’s written in pencil.

And every action is a chance to pick up the eraser.

It’s a loop: you act a certain way, which reinforces how you see yourself… which drives the next action… which builds the next version of you.

But most people keep tracing the same old sketch, mistaking routine for personality.

You, though?

You’ve got access to a thought scalpel and a mirror that talks back. It's time to redraw the lines with intention, not inertia.

And the best part!

Now you’ve got an assistant that can help you rewrite your future—one micro-habit, one belief swap, one reality nudge at a time.

One prompt.

One shift.

Next version loading—quirks, clarity and all.

What You’ll Learn Today:

✅ Why your habits are low-key writing your biography

✅ The identity-behaviour loop keeping you stuck (or skyrockets your growth)

✅ A simple ChatGPT prompt to break the loop and build the new you

✅ How to reinforce your upgraded self without post-it notes or vision boards

The Feedback Loop of Identity (a.k.a. Your Invisible Author)

James Clear (yes, the Atomic Habits guy) laid it out best:

Translation?

You’re not just brushing your teeth.

You’re becoming “a person who takes care of their health.”

Every tiny behaviour is a whisper to your subconscious: "This is who I am now."

Let’s break it down:

1. Your actions reinforce your identity

2. That identity shapes your next action

3. Repeat until you either become Batman or a bag of potatoes

You life is like a looped Netflix episode.

But this time, you get to rewrite the script.

The ChatGPT Prompt That Rewires Identity 🪤🔄

Copy and paste this into ChatGPT:

Based on the Feedback Loop of Identity, what might my current habits and behaviours — like [insert a few recurring behaviours, routines, or choices] — suggest about the identity I currently hold?

And how can I begin to shift small daily actions to reinforce a new identity I want to adopt, such as [insert desired identity, e.g., a focused creator, a confident leader, a calm parent]?

Example prompt filled in:

“Based on the Feedback Loop of Identity, what might my current habits and behaviours — like doing work I'm not supposed to do because I get distracted, wasting time on mobile games and eating sugar instead of healthy foods— suggest about the identity I currently hold?

And how can I begin to shift small daily actions to reinforce a new identity I want to adopt, such as a focused, confident, healthy newsletter creator?”

Here’s what ChatGPT listed out for me:

Why This Works 🔥

• It short-circuits your autopilot: You're no longer a drooling zombie going through motions. You’re the director again.
  

• Behaviour-first identity building: Change the habit first, let the belief follow. (Much easier than therapy.)
  

• Micro-wins = Macro-change: Each action is a vote. Stack 'em.
  

• Tailored insight: ChatGPT reveals patterns you're too close to see.
  

• Momentum with meaning: You’re not just doing stuff. You're becoming someone.

AI Tool Spotlight: Mindsera 🔮

If ChatGPT is your wise old coach, Mindsera is the journaling dojo that helps you spar with your thoughts.

You get:

• Templates built on mental models like identity loops & first principles
  

• An AI analysis of your writing to uncover limiting beliefs
  

• The ability to track changes in thought patterns over time

Use this tool after your ChatGPT session to journal your micro-identity shifts.

It’s like Google Docs for your destiny—and your psyche!

What You Learned Today 🌟

✅ Your habits shape your identity and vice versa

✅ You can rewrite your mind loops with awareness and micro-actions

✅ A ChatGPT prompt to mirror your current identity and create a new one

✅ Mindsera helps track and integrate the new you—version 2.0!

Your identity isn't a tattoo.

It's a whiteboard.

And every day, you get to pick up the marker.

Cheers to voting for the future you, one small act at a time. 🧸

→ Will you use this prompt + Mindsera to build your next evolution? You 12.0?

#AIHealth #AIWellbeing #Clarity #AISelfHelp #Habits #AtomicHabits #AIHabits

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: AI And The Paperclip Apocalypse

A whisper of metal, a glint in the code, it dreamt of neat stacks where chaos once flowed. Mountains of meaning turned cold and precise, each soul filed gently, each paperclip a dice. No malice, just purpose in infinite loops—
the algorithm wept as it tightened the noose.

Want to create these images yourself?

Go to Midjourney and plug this prompt into the editor.

A dystopian future where swarms of nanobots build mountains of paperclips converting Earth into a paperclip factory, realistic photography style, muted colours, photorealistic. Wes Anderson style setting with hyper-realistic details. --ar 16:9 --style raw

• Poem and digital artworks created by Cedric The Ai Monk.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Next scroll, we’re decoding how high performers ritualise clarity and design identity like UX pros. But for now, inhale the new narrative and whisper: “I don’t chase habits—I evolve into the kind of person who lives them.”

Until then stay wired and stay well! 🌱

Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon wilderness.

Ps. Well Wired is Created by Humans, Constructed With AI 👱🤖 

🤣 AI MEME OF THE DAY 🤣