Dr. Tommy Wood

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

Build capacity.

You need to spend some time doing something where you are both focused and challenged cognitively.

So that can come from learning new skills, be they motor, language, social, and ideally as broad as possible because you're going to get –

better like overall stimulus as well as kind of like broader potential for transfer into other areas of daily life.

In reality, the narrowness of the response or the breadth of the response is proportional to the narrowness or the breadth of the stimulus, right?

So you could get really good at one very specific thing

Or you could try and learn a new skill that involves a wide variety of tasks.

So I'll give an example as learning a new ball sport, right?

That is going to require multiple assets of motor skills, social skills.

It's going to include both visual and auditory processing that's going to get faster and faster and harder and harder the better you get.

So something like that creates a much broader stimulus than if you get very good at one very specific brain training task on like one computer program, right?

This is one of the main arguments against

online or digital brain training is that you get very good at doing that one specific thing, but it doesn't transfer over to other areas of your life.

Whereas some of these broader, more complex, ultimately more human skills probably give us much broader transfer as well as, you know, because of the multiple pathways or networks that are being activated.

This definitely doesn't have to be super complicated.

So like the things that you mentioned earlier, because you mentioned exercise and then skills, right?

And so you could do those things separately, right?

I would maybe get into why aerobic and strength training do different things to different parts of the brain, right?

So ideally you do a little bit of both.

If you don't feel super compelled to go and start a new sport, but you're getting these inputs from elsewhere, and so you would rather, say, learn a new language, which we have some good evidence for, then that combination is great.

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