Dr. Tommy Wood

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

It doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.

Maybe it means you're doing it right.

When you then think about maintaining the fundamentals, I think, yes,

But probably it's going to depend on the scenario that you're thinking about.

Because sometimes the skill that you're performing, the fundamentals are kind of baked into that in some way.

So it kind of depends on what the fundamentals really are.

So I'm thinking about one specific study that was done in pianists.

So this is kind of, it was kind of related to the Ericsson studies in violinists, right?

But this time they were looking at pianists.

And so they had four groups, older and younger.

So the younger was like 20s and 30s, older were 50s and 60s, expert and amateur pianists.

And so the experts came from German like music conservatories.

Then they looked at basic skills related to moving the fingers and other things that you would do playing the piano.

They were very task specific skills related to piano playing.

What they found was that the most important predictor of how well somebody performed at those piano specific skills was not their age.

it was how much they practice.

So it's just that getting those reps in helps you maintain those sort of like basic functions.

And maybe, right, when you're playing very complex piano pieces, you're encompassing all those fundamentals anyway, right?

You don't need to like...

do your you don't need to do your scales every day because some of that stuff is kind of built in but you will also see people as they warm up say you know maybe they will do scales and things because that's part of just like you know the the warm-up maybe part maybe that's routine right this is me getting in the in in the mode of you know playing complex piece but then maybe some of it is just kind of helping to maintain those fundamental skills

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