🎙️ Episode 17 - AI, Brain Plasticity & The Moving Mind: How to Rewire Your Life in the Age of Algorithms

In this solo deep dive, host Rudi Adigbli distills the most important lessons from the first 16 episodes of ReeThink Podcast. This episode is your guided tour through AI, brain plasticity, movement, music, the vagus nerve, and team synchrony, and how to turn them into a practical “mental gym” for modern life.

Rudi explores why AI is a net positive “pressure cooker” for society, exposing broken systems like education and attention economics while creating new space for founders, investors and builders who align technology with human biology. Drawing on conversations with guests such as Lisa Riegel (education & perception), Manu Kapur (Productive Failure & LearnPF), Vitalijus from Pulsetto (Vagus Nerve), the Syneurgy team (team flow & biometrics), Max Taubenheim (movement neuromodulation), Alex Doman (music & frequency), and insights from Steven Kotler & Michael Mannino (flow science & embodied cognition), he connects the dots between cutting‑edge neuroscience and real‑world behavior change.

You’ll learn why brain plasticity is the master lever for everything from trauma and depression to high performance and creativity, and why movement, coordination drills, martial arts, and rope flow act as powerful neuromodulators for the CNS. Rudi unpacks how flow states supercharge learning and mental health, how music and low frequencies regulate your nervous system, and why vagus‑nerve‑driven resilience (switching between sympathetic and parasympathetic states) is more powerful than just “relaxing.” He also explains how team synchrony and inter‑brain alignment are becoming measurable through AI and biometrics, opening a new frontier for investors and entrepreneurs focused on human‑centric performance tech.

If you’re an investor, entrepreneur, or simply obsessed with neuroscience, neurotechnology, AI, human potential, brain health, movement, executive function, and biohacking, this episode gives you a distilled roadmap for how to rewire your life in an age of algorithms.

Hit play to learn how to:

• See AI as an amplifier of minds, markets and systems, good and bad, and where the real opportunities lie.
  
• Design a lifestyle that maximizes brain plasticity through movement, flow, and embodied cognition.

• Use music, breathwork, and vagus‑nerve regulation to shift your state on demand.

• Build team flow and synchrony using both intuition and data.

00:00 – Intro

01:00 – AI as Pressure Cooker: Rethinking education & attention

07:00 – Brain Plasticity: Trauma, performance & lifestyle design

14:00 – Movement as Neuromodulation: Rope flow, BJJ & embodied cognition

21:00 – Executive Function & Flow: Impulse control, struggle & “God‑mode learning”

27:00 – Music & Frequency: Goosebumps, low frequencies & nervous system regulation

32:00 – Vagus Nerve, CNS & Perception: Resilience, mindfulness & how the brain builds reality

36:00 – Closing Reflections: How Rudi will train and how you can introduce more plasticity & flow

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🎙️ Episode 16 - The Biological Highway: Why Movement is the Ultimate Brain Hack with Max Taubenheim, Movement Expert

Most people treat the gym as a way to change their appearance. But what if your movement practice was actually a high-precision tool for neuromodulation and cognitive performance?

In our first-ever in-person episode, host Rudi Adigbli sits down with Zurich-based movement coach Max Taubenheim. From his early days as a professional ballet dancer in Germany’s elite Palucca School to mastering strength coaching under Paul Chek’s principles, Max has developed a unique, intuitive approach to the human body.

In this episode, we move past "reps and sets" to explore the Brain-Body Connection. We discuss how the modern "shoe conspiracy" is shutting down our sensory input, why Rope Flow and juggling are the ultimate "Mental Gym" drills, and how to use ancient bio-energetic techniques to ground your nervous system in seconds.

🚀 Key Topics Covered:

• Executive Function & Movement: Why complex coordination (juggling, rope flow) is required for modern brain health.
• The "Mental Gym" Thesis: Validating why we must compensate for our sedentary, digital lifestyle.
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Non-invasive ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system through breath and eye movement.
• Bio-Energetics: Moving out of the "Survival Brain" and into a grounded, safe physical state.
• Functional Anatomy: The importance of the feet, the jaw (Mewing), and the "Heart that can't bite."
  
  00:00 – Intro: The first in-person podcast & new facilities. 01:30 – Max’s Journey: From competitive sports to the world of professional Ballet.
  08:15 – The Pivot: Leaving the dance world and moving into Pilates & Fitness Management.
  11:00 – The Central Nervous System: Why traditional trainers miss the brain-movement link.
  13:30 – Closing the Gap: Understanding the separation between head and body.
  16:15 – Rope Flow & David Weck: Achieving a high-speed flow state.
  21:00 – Neuroplasticity Training: Using coordination drills to change your neural pathways.
  28:30 – Movement for Mental Health: Coming into the body to calm the mind.
  34:00 – Safety & Grounding: The Bio-Energetic principles of Alexander Lowen.
  42:45 – Pain as an Access Point: Why "Back Pain" is a cue for introspection.
  53:00 – Mastery: The hand-brain connection and the motor cortex.
  01:05:00 – Vocalizing Tension: Releasing unexpressed potential through sound.
  01:13:00 – The Jaw & Mastic Gum: James Nestor, "Breath," and the strongest muscle in the body.
  01:19:00 – Closing Thoughts: Always believe in your own exploration.
  
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🎙️ Episode 15 - NeuroWell: How Brain Science Can Fix a Broken Education System with Lisa A. Riegel

In this episode of the ReeThink Podcast, we explore how neuroscience, executive function, and learning science can transform education at a moment when AI is reshaping how humans learn, think, and work.

Host Rudi Adigbli sits down with Lisa A. Riegel, PhD, educator, leadership coach, and author of NeuroWell and Aspirations to Operations, to unpack why modern education is failing human biology, and how a brain-based approach can restore attention, emotional regulation, and deep learning.

As artificial intelligence automates knowledge work, Lisa argues that schools are still training students for replaceable tasks, while neglecting the neurological foundations of executive function, self-regulation, resilience, and social connection.

• Brain-Based Learning - Why perception, attention, and emotion determine how students actually learn
• The Attention Crisis - How technology and AI-driven cognitive offloading are reshaping the developing brain
• Executive Function Explained - Why skills like focus, impulse control, and self-regulation matter more than content
• NeuroWell Framework - The Safe, Supportive, Proactive model for schools and organizations
• Education in an AI World - How we must shift from fact memorization to thinking skills to stay human and relevant

00:00 – Introduction: Meet Lisa A. Riegel, PhD

04:25 – The "Spaghetti Strainer" Brain: How Perception and Bias are Formed

11:20 – You are the CEO of Your Brain: Managing the Amygdala and Thalamus

14:30 – Metacognition in Practice: The "Name it, Tame it, Control it" Exercise

20:10 – The Education Crisis: Why We Must Teach Humans, Not Content

29:05 – The "Market Culture" vs. Human Potential: Comparing US and Finland Systems

36:40 – The NeuroWell Framework: Safe, Supportive, and Proactive Environments

51:40 – IQ and Environment: Why IQ is Malleable through Stimulating Containers

54:20 – Finding "The Gap": Preparing Children for the Post-AI Job Market

57:30 – Executive Function Deficits: How Modern Life Erodes Brain Structure

01:10:15 – The 8C Commitment Framework for Leadership

01:19:00 – AI as the Most Disruptive Force for Leaders

🔗 Connect with Lisa A. Riegel:

• Website: lisaariegel.com
• Books: NeuroWell and Aspirations to Operations

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