Steven Kotler
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1,080 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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So challenging social and creative, um,
Lifelong learning matters for a bunch of different reasons, but short version, if we want to preserve brain function, we need expertise and wisdom.
Expertise and wisdom are these very diverse neural nets in the brain.
Lots of real estate, lots of redundancy, impervious to cognitive decline.
The more expertise, the more wisdom.
And this is why one of the reasons performance aging starts young.
Like literally the guy who did the core research on wisdom, Elkanon Goldberg, his core advice is
you know, the more wisdom, the more expertise, the more we have cognitive reserve, the meaning, the more we can stave off Alzheimer's, dementia, cognitive decline, all the things that are going to happen, could happen to the brain over time.
This is how we fight back.
And his point was wisdom among the many things encapsulated in wisdom are all like the unconscious rules that govern how does systems work?
How does behavior work?
All the, like all that stuff, it's onboarded slowly over time.
So you want to start training these things.
You want to be, start learning.
Challenging creative and social activities, we learn a lot during.
But they also tend to drive us into flow.
Social activities are really important as we age.
The most important thing you can do for your brain is maintain social activity because it keeps the brain active in really important ways and really lowers stress levels.
So a lot of stuff we're going to be talking about, there are nine known causes of aging.
They're all linked to inflammation.
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