#133 Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes

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Shane Parrish

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Leading neuroscientist and Stanford University School of Medicine professor Dr. Andrew Huberman goes in-depth on how small behaviors can make a huge impact on your health. Dr. Huberman offers essential insights into how light affects your sleep and your energy levels, which supplements actually work, tips to control bad impulses, exercises to slow the aging process, and so much more.

Dr. Huberman has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning. Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states, such as fear and courage.

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0:00.0	And if you're somebody who's really into self optimization,
0:02.4	then you're doing a lot of work on yourself.
0:04.4	Maybe you're doing some therapy or journaling
0:06.4	or work on traumas and you're optimizing your hormones
0:10.5	and sleep.
0:11.2	You're in a very small category.
0:13.3	Unfortunately, a people that's really trying
0:15.5	to be healthy for yourself and for others.
0:17.6	After age 25, the brain doesn't change
0:19.8	unless it's self-directed change.
0:21.7	So don't expect anybody to change
0:23.1	unless it's self-directed.
0:24.1	Forget trying to get people to change.
0:26.3	It does not work.
0:27.6	It works with children.
0:28.5	It does not work with adults.
0:29.7	Unless it's self-directed plasticity.
0:32.2	And there is tons of literature to support that statement.
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