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 single day.…