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

I've had older rabbis who've given me advice, you know, growing up that I, you know, not even being religious then,

still resonates with me.

And so I think, even at the practical level, the wisdom, sometimes it's nice to hear it from the horse's mouth.

You can read this cute little quote or something and that's reasonable.

And then I think wisdom also has a very practical kind of application.

So, Sully Sullenberger, the pilot,

The plane, I don't know if you've seen the movie, but if you remember the history is that a plane takes off from New York City and both engines go out and he's over New York City and he has to engage in an emergency landing.

Who do you want?

Do you want a younger pilot who has faster reaction times, better memory, or do you want an older pilot who has more experience flying, but has never landed a plane on water?

We know how the story ends, thankfully.

But most people would probably, as I asked my class this, this is like the dilemma, where is the wisdom, where is the knowledge?

If you're the faster pilot, maybe you turn around and land at an airport, that makes more sense.

But Sully eventually decided that he had to make this water landing.

And he said the reason he knew he could pull this off is he used to fly gliders.

And he said, the principles are the same, but it's going to be a very different physics and weight management.

But he said he felt like he'd made a number of investments over the years of kind of boosting his knowledge so that he could make one enormous withdrawal, basically landing this plane on the Hudson River, which is an amazing feat.

That's wild.

Yeah.

And so I think it's a dramatic Hollywood and there's a movie about it as well.

But I think it's a nice illustration of you can accumulate all this knowledge, not just so you apply what you've learned.

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