
552: Steven Kotler
Duncan Trussell Family Hour
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The Door Dynamic Deliberate Play
If I were to give you peak performance aging the sentence this is the sentence. You want to regularly engage in challenging creative social activities that demand dynamic deliberate play and take place in novel outdoor environments. The adult brain will produce like 700 new neurons every day even until basically you die but they come out of a place in the brain known as "the campus" So if you want to preserve brain function you want to birth new neurons, or neurogenesis. If you've got a big cognitive reserve you won't show any symptoms with Alzheimer's dementia. To maximize lifelong learning to maximize these new networks maximize neurogenesis so all those challenges and opportunities of aging are designed for your advantage.
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