Dr. Mark D'Esposito

I think it needs human interaction.

I mean, I believe executive function should be taught in school as a course.

This goal management theory that I talk about could be taught in school.

It's what you do with your students.

For example, when you have a graduate student and they have to learn how to read the literature and design an experiment and carry out the experiment, there's no technology that's going to just be able to teach them how to do that.

You've got to intervene sometimes and say,

stop reading all those papers, they're not relevant, okay?

Or, you know, you piloted this enough, get going.

It's that kind of wisdom that you get when you get older that allows, that has to be on top of the technology.

So that's why I think we also need to, it needs to be directed.

So whether it's in school or whether it's in a patient, I think there still needs to be someone coaching us.

You know, and I know that's why life coaches have been, some people have really benefited from life coaches because someone just, it sounds obvious when you tell your kids, you know, just write, you know, just do it this way, you know, break it up into little pieces.

It seems so obvious, but to them, it's not always obvious and they just need to be told something simple for it to make a big difference.

Chess.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I mean, anything that requires you to have that, you know, where there's a goal and you've got to break it down into sub goals and you've got to do it simultaneously and you got to filter out distractions.

And, you know, you know, for example, my, my kids got me one of these pizza ovens for, for, uh,

It's not that straightforward as other diseases.

There's diseases like hunting disease where it's a very strong link that if you have a parent, you have a...