What Tommy Wood thinks about ambition

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Associate professor at the University of Washington, where his laboratory studies brain health across the lifespan; he holds a medical degree from Oxford and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from Oslo.

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1. 20 Jul 2026

   Our readingNobody can do genuinely hard cognitive work for eight hours a day; the sustainable unit is one or two sessions of sixty to ninety minutes.

   Their wordsWe kind of expect that we can go to work and we can work really hard for eight hours straight during the day, but like the brain doesn't really work like that.

   ↗Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Woodyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording