Charan Ranganath

Older people show the effect just as much as younger people do. Kids show it just as much as older people do. It's just something that sticks around. So, I mean, speaking to your point, If you are surrounding yourself with things that will stimulate your curiosity, and if you're open to that curiosity, and we could talk about knowledge gaps and all these things that stimulate curiosity.

Older people show the effect just as much as younger people do. Kids show it just as much as older people do. It's just something that sticks around. So, I mean, speaking to your point, If you are surrounding yourself with things that will stimulate your curiosity, and if you're open to that curiosity, and we could talk about knowledge gaps and all these things that stimulate curiosity.

Older people show the effect just as much as younger people do. Kids show it just as much as older people do. It's just something that sticks around. So, I mean, speaking to your point, If you are surrounding yourself with things that will stimulate your curiosity, and if you're open to that curiosity, and we could talk about knowledge gaps and all these things that stimulate curiosity.

Novelty is another one. Richard Morris has some beautiful data on this with rats, but Emer Dussel and I, too, have some data with humans. surprise, all of these things. I have a whole chapter in my book on this. Drive that system.

Novelty is another one. Richard Morris has some beautiful data on this with rats, but Emer Dussel and I, too, have some data with humans. surprise, all of these things. I have a whole chapter in my book on this. Drive that system.

Novelty is another one. Richard Morris has some beautiful data on this with rats, but Emer Dussel and I, too, have some data with humans. surprise, all of these things. I have a whole chapter in my book on this. Drive that system.

The dopamine system. So basically, if you expose yourself to opportunities to be proven wrong, you expose yourself to new people, places, situations, and you allow yourself to be energized by these things and not be scared and anxious, not be like, oh, this person's saying something that I disagree with. I can't deal with this, you know? Or, oh, we figured this out 30 years ago.

The dopamine system. So basically, if you expose yourself to opportunities to be proven wrong, you expose yourself to new people, places, situations, and you allow yourself to be energized by these things and not be scared and anxious, not be like, oh, this person's saying something that I disagree with. I can't deal with this, you know? Or, oh, we figured this out 30 years ago.

The dopamine system. So basically, if you expose yourself to opportunities to be proven wrong, you expose yourself to new people, places, situations, and you allow yourself to be energized by these things and not be scared and anxious, not be like, oh, this person's saying something that I disagree with. I can't deal with this, you know? Or, oh, we figured this out 30 years ago.

We don't need, nothing's new here. If you can be open to that, I would argue that you're going to be engaging lots of plasticity, and that's something that's preserved in old age.

We don't need, nothing's new here. If you can be open to that, I would argue that you're going to be engaging lots of plasticity, and that's something that's preserved in old age.

We don't need, nothing's new here. If you can be open to that, I would argue that you're going to be engaging lots of plasticity, and that's something that's preserved in old age.

Huh. That's a really interesting question. Yeah. Well, first of all, I want to be careful and not to say dopamine does this because it's a trap, right?

Huh. That's a really interesting question. Yeah. Well, first of all, I want to be careful and not to say dopamine does this because it's a trap, right?

Huh. That's a really interesting question. Yeah. Well, first of all, I want to be careful and not to say dopamine does this because it's a trap, right?

I wouldn't be exact and just say that assigning a single function to a chemical is risky, but that said, I do believe there's a link. One of the things that you see is in Parkinson's disease, dopaminergic neurotransmitter emission is shot, and depression is also a symptom of Parkinson's disease, it's quite a severe one in fact.

I wouldn't be exact and just say that assigning a single function to a chemical is risky, but that said, I do believe there's a link. One of the things that you see is in Parkinson's disease, dopaminergic neurotransmitter emission is shot, and depression is also a symptom of Parkinson's disease, it's quite a severe one in fact.

I wouldn't be exact and just say that assigning a single function to a chemical is risky, but that said, I do believe there's a link. One of the things that you see is in Parkinson's disease, dopaminergic neurotransmitter emission is shot, and depression is also a symptom of Parkinson's disease, it's quite a severe one in fact.

And so what I think one theory goes is that dopamine energizes us to seek rewards or to seek information, right? So a big part of movement is you move to get something. it's approach, right? They talk about approach and avoidance as basic kind of things that you want to program. And so a person with Parkinson's disease has a problem with willful movement, tremors and stuff too.

And so what I think one theory goes is that dopamine energizes us to seek rewards or to seek information, right? So a big part of movement is you move to get something. it's approach, right? They talk about approach and avoidance as basic kind of things that you want to program. And so a person with Parkinson's disease has a problem with willful movement, tremors and stuff too.