Dr. Tommy Wood

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

Because we think about physical and, and cognitive or, you know, stressor psychological related challenges and the process of overcoming them, because that's what really drives

a lot of physical or mental psychological growth.

And I think that's something that fundamentally is part of what we need on a daily basis.

And so you did this thing that you were bad at and you got better at it and you proved to yourself, hey, I'm capable, I'm able to overcome challenges, I'm able to engage and do difficult things.

And I think the psychological benefits of that practice

You're just that process of engaging with a challenge, overcoming it, working hard to do that.

I think that's just almost like a core psychological need that we have.

And then that transfers to all these other things.

Oh, yeah, I can do these hard things.

I'm going to do that other thing.

I'm excited to try something else that's difficult.

I'm excited to challenge myself again.

And it needs to be something that...

feels meaningful, feels difficult enough that you have the ability to overcome with some dedicated practice or focused time working on it.

If it's too hard, you can have the opposite effect, right?

Like making something so difficult, somebody can't do it and they just fail again and again and again and again, right?

That can obviously have the opposite effect.

But something that you know you can get better at, you know you can work on, you can see progress.

I think all of that then has all these knock-on effects.

I think of flow as the maximal expression of a complex learned skill.

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