Tommy Wood
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390 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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And it's just like physical activity, right?
You go to the gym, you lift something, you reach failure.
You do that over a period of time, you get stronger, you can lift more, you can do more reps.
And the brain is essentially the same.
Yes.
So there's a few different ways to think about it.
And again, kind of largely driven by how it's been studied.
But people who develop expertise in some kind of either complex skill or creative art seem to have sort of younger looking, better functioning brains and a lower risk of dementia.
There's going to be some baseline activities.
So we know that people who have more complex jobs, they're less repetitive, they involve problem solving, they involve more social interaction.
They tend to have slow cognitive decline as well.
And so there's going to be just the day-to-day.
Are you...
regularly, you know, ideally every day engaging in stuff that uses your brain in some way, problem solving, interacting with people, sort of learning new skills at work, whatever that might be.
And so as much of that, that's kind of like, that's like in our cardio example, that's like the walking, right?
You just need to, that's kind of your low level activity.
Continuing that is going to be important.
But then you also want to do some higher intensity stuff.
So this might be, you pick one skill that you're bad at,
And you do it two or three times a week because we see that the most efficient in terms of amount of learning you get from a single bout of learning or the amount that you retain from a single bout of learning is maximized if you're doing it every two or three days.
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