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This week: why your body knows more than you think, an 80-year-old doctor mastering AI while researching a body system most physicians have never heard of, and why medical literacy after 60 isn't optional.

Your Body Already Knows What Your Mind Hasn't Named Yet

Professional wisdom isn't just in your head—it's encoded in your nervous system through decades of pattern recognition. That gut feeling about a client situation or market shift? It's your body processing information faster than conscious thought. Your Body Knows How Lived Experience Becomes Strategic Business Intelligence explores how somatic markers and embodied cognition turn years of experience into reliable decision-making intelligence. This is the fourth article in the Engaged Epistemology Series—epistemology being the study of how we know what we know, and how different types of knowledge work.

The topic sounds a bit woo, but it's legitimate neuroscience explaining why your experienced instincts often prove more accurate than purely analytical approaches. Read more here https://wisepreneurs.com.au/lived-experience-business-intelligence/​

When a 74-Year-Old Doctor Discovers a Body System Medical School Never Taught

Dr. Michael Best was my most recent guest on the Wisepreneurs Podcast. He stumbled into medicinal cannabis research during COVID. He was 74. Now at 80, he's writing a scientifically rigorous book while mastering AI tools, Obsidian, and Zotero—technologies that intimidate professionals half his age.

His discovery that the endocannabinoid system (present in every human, ancient as dinosaurs) remains unknown to most doctors reveals how much professional education leaves out. More importantly, his journey demolishes myths about cognitive decline and technology adoption after 70.

Listen to Michael Best on Career Reinvention, Cannabis Research, and Learning at 80​
​https://www.wisepreneurs.au/michael-best-career-reinvention-cannabis-research-learning-at-80/​

Your Health Agency Depends on Strategic Knowledge

After 60, understanding your own physiology becomes essential for maintaining the cognitive vitality and physical energy to pursue what matters to you—whether that's continued work, new projects, or simply living well. Taking Control Why Medical Knowledge Matters More Than Ever After 60 examines how accumulated life experience combines with targeted medical literacy to improve health outcomes.

When you can translate symptoms into informed questions and evaluate medical advice against your embodied knowledge, you shift from passive patient to active partner in sustaining your capability and energy.

Read more here: https://wisepreneurs.com.au/medical-knowledge-health-agency-after-60/​

The pattern across all three? Your decades of professional and lived experience aren't depreciating assets. They're increasingly valuable strategic intelligence—if you know how to recognise, develop, and deploy them.explores how somatic markers and embodied cognition turn years of experience into instant strategic intelligence. This isn't mysticism—it's neuroscience explaining why your instincts often outperform spreadsheets.
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​The AI Productivity Paradox Why Experts Working Easier Lose Their Edge
​When you work alone, your thinking is the product. If AI degrades that thinking, your business suffers directly.
Read more about how experts and AI work best https://wisepreneurs.com.au/ai-productivity-paradox-experts-losing-edge/​

Cheers

Nigel Rawlins | Wisepreneurs
​Strategic Guide for Experience-Based Professionals​
​Host: Wisepreneurs Podcast (76 expert conversations)