🎙️ Episode 18 - Bloom’s Taxonomy, AI Pressure & Flow: Training the Brain Beyond Algorithms

In this episode, Rudi Adigbli builds on Episode 17 to ask: what thinking still matters in the age of AI? Mapping Bloom’s Taxonomy, from Remember to Create, onto Large Language Models, he explores AI research showing that while algorithms excel at analysis, they often fail at complex, multi-step creative work requiring executive function and judgment.

Rudi connects this to flow state neuroscience, citing Steven Kotler and Dr. Michael Mannino. While flow, trauma, and psychedelics all drive plasticity, only flow encodes "learned powerfulness." By leveraging flow triggers, movement, risk, and novelty, you can direct neuroplasticity toward high performance.

Finally, drawing on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, Rudi shows how smartphones erode attention and emotional regulation. He argues for "attention sovereignty": rather than letting feeds train your nervous system into distraction, you must engineer a "mental gym" through disciplined tech use and nervous system regulation.

ReeThink the System. ReeWire the Mind.

00:00 – Why a follow‑up to Episode 17?
03:00 – Bloom’s Taxonomy in the AI era
08:00 – What schools train (and what they ignore)
13:00 – Where AI is strong, and where it still fails
19:00 – Human creativity vs AI output (Fiverr study)
24:30 – Flow, PTSD and psychedelics: Kotler & Mannino
30:00 – Learned helplessness vs learned powerfulness
33:30 – Social media, smartphones and youth anxiety
38:30 – Digital detox neuroscience in practice
43:00 – Designing AI‑resilient cognition

🌐 Website: https://reewire.vc/ai-pressure-on-attention-training-the-brain-beyond-algorithms/
📸 Instagram: @rudiadigbli

👉 Read the full episode summary on my Substack: https://reethink.substack.com/?r=5rf5jd&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist

Sources:
First few seconds for flow: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422004456
Mountains of Evidence: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/mountains-of-evidence
Reducing social media use decreases loneliness: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032726001825
Remote Labor Index – Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work: https://www.remotelabor.ai/paper.pdf

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