🎙️ 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

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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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🎙️ 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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