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A living textbook for a better life

Every Issue is a chapter: a viral clip opens it, real studies teach it, a free tool helps you live it.

  1. 1 Viral clip
  2. 2 Key ideas
  3. 3 Real evidence
  4. 4 Free tool for today

Issue 03 · Can Genius Grow? · New issue every other day

We don't fight the feed. We finish it.

We make research-led films and writing that engage with viral culture but work against doomscrolling. We open with a recognisable clip, teach, and close, so the feed is finished, not fought.

Stay to learn
Black-and-white still from the 1925 silent film Chess Fever: a player at a full board, pieces filling the frame. Opens

Genius looks like this: a mind that stays, instead of scrolling on.

Opening clip: Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky, “Chess Fever” (1925, public domain). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chess_Fever_(1925)_by_Vsevolod_Pudovkin_and_Nikolai_Shpikovsky.webm

Coloured map of axonal nerve fibres in a brain, on black. Ends

Here's the wiring behind talent: a brain you can still train.

Closing clip: jgmarcelino, “Axonal nerve fibers in a brain - the neural network that is us” (CC BY 2.0). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Axonal_nerve_fibers_in_a_brain_-_the_neural_network_that_is_us.webm

How we teach

A living textbook: how every chapter works

Each Issue is a chapter. We meet you in the feed, teach in the open, show the evidence, and send you out with one thing to try — and a free tool.

  1. 01 · Opens

    A viral clip opens the chapter

    We meet you where the feed is.

    Example Issue 03, Can genius grow?, opens with a recognisable clip: a mind that stays, instead of scrolling on.

  2. 02 · Key ideas

    Taught like a university textbook chapter

    Headings and studies appear on screen, one idea at a time.

    Example Issue 01, Rest is training, is taught in headed sections: the exhaustion paradox, the athlete’s secret, a weekly reset.

  3. 03 · Evidence

    Every claim is checked

    Sources are checked in Consensus, Elicit and Perplexity, then linked.

    Example Issue 04, Walk to think, cites Oppezzo and Schwartz (2014): walking opened creative thinking compared with sitting.

  4. 04 · Takeaway, free tool, then Ends

    One thing to try today

    A verified free app or web page, then a viral clip to close.

    Example Issue 03 ends with one thing to try today and a free tool, Lichess, then a closing clip.

Made by a neuroscience researcher (master's research at VU Amsterdam).

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The films · New issue every other day

Issues

About

Oliver

Kaizen Flourishing mark: a serif F on vermilion.

Kaizen Flourishing · Mind · Body · Soul

Oliver does Master's research in neuroscience at VU Amsterdam, and holds a psychology degree.

The British Olympic team commissioned research from me and my supervisor in England.

He works as a researcher in science and sport on how nutrition affects the mind.

As a personal trainer in the City, I've trained well-known actors, senior executives and traders, as well as disabled clients, and privately tutored international students.

He also has physiotherapy experience.

Our work draws on lived experience of recovery as well as research.

The work

Mind · Body · Soul

Journal

Latest writing

Textbook-style chapters: the key idea, the evidence, a takeaway, and free tools. New issues of the films land every other day.

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Free tools

Free tools to flourish

A chapter list, led by the YouTube lessons, then free official guides, public-domain reading, and the papers themselves. Every link was checked. None of these require a paid account. The full course list is on the Syllabus.

  1. I · The lessons

    Watch on YouTube

    The syllabus is led by the films. New issue every other day.

  2. II · Mind

    Think clearly, without a paywall

    Official, free self-help — not a substitute for a GP.

  3. III · Body

    Move, then think

    Free programmes you can start today. No app subscription required.

  4. IV · Soul

    Meaning, in the open

    Public-domain reading and a long study of what actually holds a life together.

  5. V · The evidence

    Read the papers yourself

    Every claim on this site should be checkable.

    • 01
      Research page

      The sources used in the films and journal, with limitations noted.

    • 02
      PubMed Central

      Free full-text biomedical and psychology papers.

The guide

The Flourishing Toolkit

A short, free PDF of practices for mind, body and soul, to use alongside the films and the journal.

Download the toolkit (PDF)

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