Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

Another perspective saying that as we get older, our mindset shifts, that we don't have as much time to live, so we want to focus on the things that are important.

Whereas when you're young, it's very abstract to say save for retirement or what are you going to do when you're 60?

It's like, what am I going to do next week?

But her work has shown that when you give people different time perspectives, they make different choices.

If you unfortunately tell someone who's younger that they only have five to 10 years left to live,

they're going to make choices very much like older adults do.

So I don't know if it's conscious that we're thinking these things, but as you get older, maybe you realize, I want to focus on the things that matter the most.

Maybe I won't worry so much about the things that I used to worry about all the time.

And that can be kind of a healthy way to approach life.

Yeah, it's an interesting conjecture.

And in some ways we probably do know like our lifespan is about this, but you're right, accidents can happen, things can happen.

And I've seen from my own family, I can take the average age of my mother and father.

And sadly, my mother passed away when she was young, my father's still alive.

So I think I have this perspective of,

Life can be short.

And when people are like, I'm 50, but I haven't done this, this, and this, part of me is like, I'm 50 and I've made it this far.

I'm pretty happy with things.

But of course, your perspective could be different.

And I don't know, in the case of these high-performing individuals, maybe they lead every day like it could be their last and they want to stay up all night and transform the world.

I think a lot of the super-agers are probably not doing that.

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