Larry Sherman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And so the fact that people do that doesn't surprise me at all, because all the different parts of our brain we're using when we're dealing with music, either making it or listening to it, it's activating a lot of territory.
And so if you can stimulate one area that's not getting stimulated through another means,
that can lead to these kind of moments of clarity or moments of functionality.
Yeah, so, I mean, there's that old expression, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but the reality is you can teach an old dog new tricks, it just takes longer.
um so our brain is much more plastic it's much more capable of of you know reshaping itself and rewiring itself when we're younger but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen when we're older it's just it's it's a slower process there's more there's more more cells in the way that have to kind of get out of the way to to make those circuits occur so the reality is we can learn new things in old age and i think about i think about artists who start very late in life painting or
or even music, who pick up a piano when they're in their 60s or 70s and suddenly are playing all the time and getting great benefit from it.
And what's the benefit?
Well, I think the benefit is all the things I talked about before.
So the fact that you're learning an instrument, for example, or learning to play music,
or sing even, if you're challenging yourself, the challenge actually drives things like the generation of new neurons, the generation of the substance myelin I mentioned that increases the speed by which neurons communicate with one another, and it increases the connections between neurons, the synapses.
And so the more you challenge yourself as we get older, the better off you're going to be.
Because as we get older, we start to lose cells and we start to lose connections between cells.
And so if you have more to lose, you're going to be better off later in life.
So I think that's just a remarkable thing we've come to understand in just the last couple, maybe 20 years, is that even in old age,
Yeah, it takes a lot longer.
You can't deny it.
Learning things when you're younger is easier, but you can still learn things when you're older.
You just have to push yourself.
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