I would assert that it's almost impossible, maybe impossible, to become the best version of oneself

without experiencing any discomfort or fear or stress.

And I think that boils down to the Kormesis idea.

It boils down to the Hans Selyer, who won the Nobel Prize for General Adaptation Syndrome.

Yes, you have distress and you have stress, but that you become a stronger, better neural organism. You become a stronger, better physical organism by placing yourself

into reasonable scenarios or sometimes unreasonable scenarios in which you experience stress

and have to work your way through it, survive it, compensate, and show up better.

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Welcome to Collective Insights.

Welcome everyone to the Neurohacker Collective Podcast, Collective Insights.

My name is Daniel.

I'm with research and development here at Neurohacker Collective.

And we are really excited to have Dr. Andrew Heuerman with us today.

Andrew is a professor of neuroscience, neurobiology, at Stanford School of Medicine,

which is one of the eminent neuroscience centers in the world,

cutting edge work and understanding the brain. When he and I first met, he was at UCSD and the

Salk Institute and transferred a couple years ago up to Stanford.

And he also runs the Huberman Labs, which is working on the neuroscience of vision.

And he has a very interesting kind of history with studying vision and then the neuroscience of vision and then sentry processing.

And then as a result of that fear, has really helped develop the

neurobiology lab at Stanford and the tech there.

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