Tommy Wood
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390 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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You can learn faster if you do it more frequently than that, just like you'll get fitter if you exercise more frequently.
But in terms of people who just have a limited amount of time,
pick a language musical instrument, a sport, you know, dancing, pickleball, and then do it two or three times a week for maybe like an hour.
And that's going to be a really good framework to start.
It's going to be relatively time efficient, relatively challenging, and it's going to give you a good progression that's going to be sort of like building some of those, you know, building some of those capacities.
Love it.
Yeah, so I...
A couple of years ago, maybe it was 2022 now, a colleague of mine, Dr. Shosh Turk, he's a neurologist, and we have a podcast together, we've written papers together, and we wrote a paper about this idea that how we use our brains really determines how they function late in life.
So by not using them in the same way, by removing stimulus,
we then drive a functional decline that we call aging, but it's really just, it's a product of how we've changed the way we use our brains as we get older.
And I spoke to a friend of mine about this, a guy called Julian Able.
He's a retired palliative care physician, and he's done some really groundbreaking work in compassionate communities, like building community connection in a town that then significantly improves the health of that town.
He's published these data.
It's now been replicated in multiple cities around the world.
And I sort of explained this idea of stimulus driven decline or like the lack of stimulus driving decline.
He was like, yes, that's true.
But this is all really driven by humans need for social connection, because most like most of the times when we're learning complex skills, most of the time we're expressing complex skills.
Most of the times when we're
you know, learning and doing things, it's in the context of other people.
And our social brains are really significant drivers of how our brains developed.
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