Sean Candler

Chiropractor | EMRG | Heath & Fitness | Adventure | Trying to Understand Myself and the Universe | Constantly Learning 🧠

[Nirosha J. Murugan @niroshajmurugan]

We experience our bodies as the boundary of the self. Where our skin ends and the outside world begins.

This boundary is shaped through ongoing sensory processing. In humans, this sense of separation depends in part on the left hemisphere. When it's disrupted, after strokes or under psychedelics, that boundary can dissolve, giving rise to the feeling that the self extends into the surrounding world.

Is this unique to us or our big beautiful brains?

This awesome study aims to get at this by showing that octopuses can experience a version of the rubber hand illusion, responding to touch on a fake arm as if it were part of their own body.

If a nervous system can redraw the boundary of the body, perhaps the "self" is less a fixed object than a dynamic model, continuously updated by sensory information from the world around us.

https://t.co/8BLNUrgdlN

[Sean Candler @Sean_Candler]

The relationship between the j-space and global workspace theory is interesting.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.

Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.

We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Jim Rohn on remembering the basics:

[Abud Bakri MD @AbudBakri]

Blue light available from wake-up until sleep for 16 hours -> brain thinks it’s summer all day

Summer biology results in MSH up regulating fertility

But… with no ocular UV exposure this doesn’t happen

So you don’t get the high melatonin of winter nor the hormonal boost of summer

Worst of both

[David Senra @davidsenra]

.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:

“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”

“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”

“I never take in any negativity.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There is an African Proverb that I love:

“A cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats.”

Meaning: To achieve greatness, you must let go of old habits that could hold back your progress.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

There’s more to the youth mental health crisis than social media. A key culprit is perfectionism.

307 studies, 35 years, 83k students: Young adults feel growing pressure to be flawless.

It's a risk factor for depression and anxiety—and it began a generation before smartphones.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Get rich the hard, slow, but guaranteed way. There are no lines at that counter.

If a good outcome is far enough out, humans discount its value to approximately zero.

This is why opportunity will always exist for those who can endure.

[Sean Candler @Sean_Candler]

This is very cool and it just looks beautiful. Excited to see where this type of imaging technology will go.

[Aleph @alephneuro]

We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look.

Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n)

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Anybody who makes you earn their love doesn't love you.

Love is a gift. It's freely given. You can't transact your way to it the way you can transact your way to a promotion or a good grade. The very thing that makes love love is that it isn't conditional. The moment it becomes conditional, it stops being love and becomes something else. Approval, perhaps. Or maybe usefulness. Worth a great deal, sure, but not love.

The people who get this wrong are usually the people who are good at earning things. Strivers. If you've spent your life learning how to earn every reward the world offers, you'll bring that machinery to your most important relationships. You'll work harder. You'll be more useful. You'll perform. You'll people-please.

The truth is, people-pleasing is outsourcing your self-worth. You're letting other people decide what you're worth and adjusting until they tell you the answer you want. If they like me, I'm okay. If they don't, I'm not. That's a brutal contract to live under… and the worst part is you signed it yourself.

Most people who do this learned it in childhood. Somewhere along the line, they processed the lesson that love is conditional — that affection had to be earned through good grades, good behavior, the right kind of smile. So they kept earning. They became excellent at it, and they never stopped.

Stop confusing love with approval. Keep loving the people in your life; just stop trying to win them. Insource your sense of who you are. Receive what's freely given. When somebody requires payment, pay attention.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

After five years of watching every @elonmusk interview, here's the hard truth:

You are more capable than you think.

What you think is your best effort, is maybe 30% effort, and you're actually capable of so much more.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Getting in shape is a spiritual process that’s disguised as a physical one.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Probably the realest thing I have heard Chamath say

"Possessions are BS. They are worthless. They are a sign of insecurity, a rampant ego, and an unsettled mind. And that is okay if you are going to be a mid."

[Abud Bakri MD @AbudBakri]

It’s time to get serious thymus imaging

[Sean Candler @Sean_Candler]

This is very cool! Excited to see how this changes the medical world.

[Abud Bakri MD @AbudBakri]

The crazy part about circadian rhythms is if you usually wake up at 9am, then suddenly decide to wake at 5am, you actually just pushed your rhythm forward and will tend to fall asleep LATER

5am is before your temperature minimum so light exposure then pushes clock forward

Have to slowly shift so the rhythm can catch up

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

This is why the supporters of @elonmusk work hard to "defend him."

Because it's not about Elon.

He's a symbol of progress.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Pessimists sound smart. 

Optimists build the world.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

To become more optimistic, start imagining your best possible self.