Makai Elías Calles
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I’m delighted to share my first article published with @EpochTimes. The kind of sensible place that knows Jane Austen has as much to teach us now as ever about the embattled institution of marriage in Western culture.
theepochtimes.com/opinion/how-ja… via @epochtimes
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Wire up someone's brain while they read and you can watch it flip: paper puts them into deep-focus, problem-solving mode.
A screen drops them into the same pattern as a wandering, half-checked-out mind.
On paper, the brain runs on beta and gamma waves, the signature of being locked in. On a screen it slides to theta and alpha, lighter, more mind-wandering. As the breakdown puts it, it's almost like your brain is idling.
And here's the twist. Print readers don't just understand more, they read faster too, by about 10 to 30%. Not by skimming. Their comprehension came out higher, not lower.
Your brain is already optimized for paper in a way it isn't yet for pixels…
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Dr. Michelle Manu breaks joints for a living. She teaches lua, the Hawaiian warrior art of striking, locking, and takedowns.
When asked how she handles emotional boundaries, her answer redrew the map of what counts as an attack:
"It's not just physical violence that I'm a protector against. There's also energetic violence that occurs. There's financial violence."
Her opening move isn't a strike. It's nothing at all.
"Our silence is so very powerful. Don't give in and don't tether yourself energetically to have to engage with that individual."
But it depends who's in front of her.
"If we look at the blocks and the punches and the sweeps and the takedowns, I have analogies for that in the energetic, too.
"Sometimes we do counter, sometimes we do reply, sometimes we angle off, sometimes we go straight in. Sometimes they get double elbows. You know, sometimes I do the shark bite."
Her closing rule: "We should honor the pause before we reply."
"The world shouldn't move us. We should be immovable. We decide. We decide when."
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"This is very unpopular. But my mornings are tech free, people free, noise free and no speaking." That's Dr. Michelle Manu's daily protocol, and the reason behind it is the line worth stealing: "I try to make sure that I take control over my chemistry before the world tries to take control over it." What she does: • Wakes and goes quietly outside. No noise, no talking. • Does her affirmations. • Starts her legal work in silence. • Doesn't turn her phone on until 9:30. That's two-plus hours of focus "before I start entertaining what's going on in the world with others." She says she thrives in hard situations "because I connect with myself first thing in the morning."
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"Plants can remember things, which is wild when you think about it."
A mimosa plant closes its leaves at the slightest touch.
Drop it enough times with nothing bad happening, and it stops closing altogether. That's not reflex. That's learning.
@makailee compares it to Pavlov's dog: same drop, same response, over and over, until the plant works out it's safe.
No brain.
No nervous system most of us would recognize.
Just repetition and memory.
Intelligence might not need a brain to exist.
It just needs a reason to stop reacting.
youtube.com/watch?v=YN5MPL…
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Do you ever feel like the year is going by in the blink of an eye? You aren’t imagining things. There is a scientific reason why time speeds up as you age, and more importantly, there are proven psychological methods to slow it back down.
Watch the full video with @makailee:
Why Time Speeds Up as You Age and How to Slow It Down
theepochtimes.com/epochtv/why-ti…
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View a full-length, new documentary on NDEs and life after death by Makai Calles of the Epoch Times. Eben Alexander, Anita Moorjani and others are featured in Final Hours.
tinyurl.com/Final-Hours-EA
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New podcast with @makailee out today! It's all about near death experiences.
Real Talk with Zuby@ZubyPodcast
"I was floating outside of my body. I could see myself laying in the bed." @makailee had a near-death experience that broke their entire worldview of science. Then came Maria, a woman who left her body during her own NDE, floated above the hospital, and saw a blue shoe on the ceiling. She told the nurse when she came back. The nurse went up to check. The shoe was there. Then Dr Eben Alexander, the Harvard neurosurgeon who wrote Proof of Heaven. Seven days in a coma. His brain scans showed no way he should have had consciousness. He did anyway. Every one of them uses the same words. Love. Peace. Link:youtu.be/YN5MPL2Bg6c?si…
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"I was floating outside of my body. I could see myself laying in the bed."
@makailee had a near-death experience that broke their entire worldview of science.
Then came Maria, a woman who left her body during her own NDE, floated above the hospital, and saw a blue shoe on the ceiling.
She told the nurse when she came back. The nurse went up to check. The shoe was there.
Then Dr Eben Alexander, the Harvard neurosurgeon who wrote Proof of Heaven. Seven days in a coma.
His brain scans showed no way he should have had consciousness. He did anyway.
Every one of them uses the same words. Love. Peace.
Link:youtu.be/YN5MPL2Bg6c?si…
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Can dementia be prevented with lifestyle improvement and attention to risk factors?
feature @Nature by @hcpearson nature.com/articles/d4158…
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It is a sign of the ages that we need specific studies to confirm what we should already understand by extrapolation of known and confirmed data.
Yet, here it is: A new study (link in the first comment bellow) shows that, unlike a human mentor or master who will help scaffold learning and prioritizes growth over immediate performance, AI systems act like short-sighted drug dealers—they give instant and complete answers, without ever saying no (except for safety reasons.
The consequences are: reduced persistence (mental and behavioral changes; conditioning to expect immediate answers) and impaired unassisted performance.
"Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes)."
These results cannot be taken out of the larger, even more concerning context: we are already decades in a much easier life than our ancestors. Most of everything is only one button push away; time and space are no longer limitations, and processes of any kind are becoming almost inconspicuous in our daily lives. In this context, real, long-term learning measured in mastery—which cannot stop being a long, arduous process—becomes the odd, most alien dimension of our modern lives.
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How long does it take for AI to start rotting your brain? About ~10 minutes. In a new MIT study, participants worked through problems either with an AI assistant in a sidebar or without one. The AI was then removed, and everyone finished without “help”. The AI group solved 57% of the problems. The no AI group solved 73%. The AI users also skipped questions and gave up more often. The effect persisted in both math and reading tasks and was mainly observed among people who used AI to obtain answers directly. Participants who used it solely for hints showed no notable decrease.
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How long does it take for AI to start rotting your brain?
About ~10 minutes.
In a new MIT study, participants worked through problems either with an AI assistant in a sidebar or without one. The AI was then removed, and everyone finished without “help”.
The AI group solved 57% of the problems. The no AI group solved 73%. The AI users also skipped questions and gave up more often.
The effect persisted in both math and reading tasks and was mainly observed among people who used AI to obtain answers directly. Participants who used it solely for hints showed no notable decrease.
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Your suspicions about #audiobooks are correct. Your reading comprehension and metabolism of information into memory takes a hit. About a 20% hit, according to some research.
Books, ideally old-fashioned books printed on paper, are still the best way to glean knowledge about complex topics.
But here's the nuance. Narrative dramatically increases the stickiness of information. That's why I spent +1,300 hours taking my 15-year obsession with biohacking and lifehacking and embedding it into a thriller narrative in my SciFi novel series, Hourglass.
▶️ Interesting video essay on the topic by @makailee
youtube.com/watch?v=wVU_Xb…
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Some Kids Are Born With Skills They Never Learned, Here’s Why
A strange pattern has been documented for decades.
Young children, usually between the ages of 2 and 4, start speaking words, phrases, and sometimes entire dialects of languages that nobody in their family knows and that they’ve never been exposed to.
Somehow, these children arrive already knowing things.
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“I would look at them in the eye, and I would ask them, ‘Are you afraid of death?’ All of them, without question, immediately responded, 'absolutely not,' and there was not a flinch."
@makailee joins me to discuss his new documentary, The Final Hour theepochtimes.com/epochtv/final-…
TONIGHT—ntd.com/ntdplus/venezu…
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