Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes, of course, there's no like big motor patterns involved, but you're having to do, you know, solve complex problems, you know, react quickly to a changing environment, that kind of stuff.

So that's, you know, eight or nine different things that somebody could try.

And like just one of those, I think is going to be a new skill, a new stimulus, often happens in a social environment, a number of different things happening at the same time.

any particular instruments?

I don't think anybody's looked at instruments, like the difference in different instruments.

So I would say, no, pick one that you would, that you feel motivated and interested to learn.

Yeah, dancing by oneself has a lower shame quotient.

Well, the shame quotient, I think might be important, right?

There's the...

You know, there's the discomfort of making mistakes and we know how critical that is for learning.

And so I think some of that can be important, too.

But if you do it in a class, everybody else is a beginner.

You're all doing it together.

Maybe that adds a fun component because you can laugh at each other when you don't get it right.

So a few years ago.

I wrote a paper with my colleague Josh Turknett about this idea that potentially one of the reasons why we lose cognitive function as we get older is because we stop giving our brain novel inputs or complex inputs that help maintain function, drive neuroplasticity.

And I think one of the reasons that that happens is because...

Adults hate being bad at things, right?

You just like this thought, right?

You just imagined it, right?

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