I didn’t plan this as some productivity experiment.

Honestly, I was just tired.

Tired of opening Google for one simple question and ending up with fifteen tabs, two YouTube videos, and absolutely no focus left in my head.

A few weeks ago, I searched for a simple question about improving concentration while working.

Within minutes, I was reading Reddit opinions, watching productivity videos, scrolling through comments, and somehow checking Instagram in between.

An hour disappeared.

That’s when I Realized something strange:

The internet gives answers faster than ever before, but somehow we feel more mentally exhausted than ever too.

So I decided to try something small.

For seven days, I stopped using Google for most of my daily searches and used AI instead.

Not completely.

Not for everything.

But enough to notice the difference.

I expected convenience.

What I didn’t expect was how much it would reveal about my attention span, my habits, and the way the internet quietly drains mental energy every…