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

You're going to try and figure it out.

You want to learn a new language.

You want to learn how to communicate with people.

There's going to be a lot of trial and error.

I think kind of the best learners are the ones who persist, who are curious, because that's how you're going to get a lot of feedback, asking not just lots of questions, but the right questions.

I think it can.

I think our goals can play a big role.

A lot of the learning we do is sometimes, you know, learning to take a test or learning, you know, something because it'll be on a test.

But as we get through life, we realize

If you're interested in birdwatching or music or skateboarding, a lot of this is going to be observational learning.

It's going to be talking to other people.

So I think it comes down to curiosity, which is almost closing this knowledge gap where here I am, but I want to be here.

How can I get from here to here?

And some of it is there's a strong motivation there.

And that's something we've started to study with older adults as well, because we know memory declines happen with age, but not all things change equally.

And in fact, there are certain memory systems that might actually remain stable or even improve.

And I think some of the keys here are curiosity, being interested in listening to a podcast, talking to someone else, closing that knowledge gap, and then kind of extending that and going further.

And I sometimes find there's topics that I'm not so interested in, but then there's some that I will almost become obsessive about.

That it's like, I'm gonna watch that YouTube video and the next one and the next one, and then it's 45 minutes later.

And I think that that can be a waste of time in some ways, but it shows that our brain is craving this information.

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