3min chapter

Flow Radio cover image

How Does Lifelong Learning Boost Performance?

Flow Radio

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Peak Performance Aging

The brain evolved to remember, where was that right fruit tree after the long winter? Or where was the cave that housed the bear that tried to kill us? And so we could avoid that, right? Yeah. So it doesn't really know the difference between like I scared myself jumping off a jump and I saw a bear,. It's still a bunch of nor epinephrine and cortisol in the brain is treating it the same way. You get the same kind of reaction, but you get neurogenesis, which is what you're looking for. The term peak performance aging started emerging as a term when people started looking at the skills like VO2 Maxxis.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode