Steven Kotler
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1,080 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Jun
Steven Kotler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you don't have a social life, you are not going to age successfully.
And in fact, if you don't have a social life peak performance, you're just sort of locked out of peak performance because you social support for a lot of different psychological safety reasons and just performance reasons.
It's really important to have social support.
And part of that, like you can get really great social support on the telephone, on Zoom.
We all learned that during COVID, but there is something to be said for in-person oxytocin, right?
I always tell people if for whatever reason you're like stuck with the phone and Zoom, make sure you pet a dog for at least eight minutes a day, a dog or a cat.
Petting an animal for about five to eight minutes also releases oxytocin and some of those other pro-social chemicals.
So like if you're stuck on, like if we need social support for performance, we definitely need for big performance aging, right?
Animals are our friends here.
So
Let's back up one step and talk about learning, like where you started.
I just want to start where you started, which is, so if you want to stave off Alzheimer's, dementia, cognitive decline, right?
Fluid intelligence, what matters?
Lifelong learning.
Why is that?
Expertise and wisdom are the two most important things we can do to develop what's known as cognitive reserve.
So if you have a high cognitive reserve, you could even have advanced Alzheimer's, meaning you die, they autopsy your brain, you've got tangles and plaques everywhere, and it just looks like your brain's mush and you're still, nobody would notice if you were alive.
This was some of the early research that happened.
They started autopsying brains and being like, whoa, this person had advanced Alzheimer's.
How the hell did they function so well up till age 100, right?
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