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Sports physiologist, PhD. Helping people stay strong, mobile, and healthy for the long game. Research → practical protocols
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"Focus on the purpose instead of the pain."
@ShakaSenghor on what got him through long-term solitary confinement:
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Stanford recently dropped a reality check on AI.
Most models are not really “thinking”; they’re just very good at passing tests.
They can score high on benchmarks, but struggle with real-life tasks like planning or problem-solving.
So the results look great… until you actually use them.
Read the full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06176


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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist sent eight elderly men back in time and their bodies followed.
Back in the 1970s, psychologist @ellenjl ran one of the most provocative experiments in the history of psychology. She invited eight men in their late 70s and early 80s to spend a week at a retreat. But when they arrived, something felt immediately off.
The magazines were from 1959. The radio played music from the 50s. The TV showed old black-and-white programs. Every last detail of the environment had been wound 20 years into the past.
Here's the twist: the men weren't asked to remember 1959. They were told to live as if it were 1959.
They spoke about their careers in the present tense. They discussed world events as though they had just happened. They carried their own luggage, cleaned up after meals, and moved around like they used to. For a full week, they stopped seeing themselves as old men.
And then something happened.
Their bodies started to change.
Tests conducted before and after the retreat showed measurable improvements across the board. Vision, hearing, grip strength, memory, flexibility, even posture. Arthritis symptoms improved. Independent observers, shown photographs of the men taken before and after, judged them to look an average of two years younger.
After just one week. No medication. No surgery. Only a shift in environment and mindset.
"Your body may be listening to the story your mind tells about what is possible."
The study doesn't promise you can think yourself young forever. But it does suggest something worth sitting with: the body may take its cues from the narrative the mind keeps rehearsing.
Think about how often you say things like: I'm too old for that. My back just does that now. I can't move like I used to.
Those sentences don't land in a vacuum. The body hears them and sometimes, it obeys.
The men in Langer's experiment didn't get a pep talk. They weren't told to think positively or push through the pain. The environment simply stopped confirming the story of decline and without that story running on repeat, something in them opened back up.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on why Plan B is destroying your chances of success:
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a stark warning about self-doubt and most people don't realise they're already falling into this trap.
"When you start doubting yourself that's very dangerous because now what you're basically saying is that if my plan doesn't work I have a fallback plan, I have a plan B."
Most people think having a backup plan is smart. Responsible, even.
Arnold sees it as self-sabotage.
"Every thought that you put into plan B, you're taking away now that thought and that energy from plan A."
It's not just about action, but also about where your mental energy goes.
The moment you start architecting an escape route, you stop fully committing to the path in front of you. You split your focus. You dilute your intensity.
Here's his conclusion:
"To me it is very dangerous to have a plan B because you're cutting yourself off from the chance of really succeeding."
This isn't recklessness. It's total psychological commitment.
The world's most successful people, athletes, founders, artists, they share one thing: they burned the boats. Not because failure wasn't possible, but because entertaining it was a cost they refused to pay.
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