How the Brain Makes Sense of Stress, Fear, and Courage | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

He has made numerous important 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.

He is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, which is given to the scientist making the largest discoveries in the study of vision.

Andrew is also actively involved in developing tools now in use by elite military in the US and Canada, athletes, and technology industries for optimizing performance in high stress environments, enhancing neural plasticity, mitigating stress, and optimizing sleep.

In this conversation we discuss the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage.

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0:00.0	The eyes are fundamentally the most powerful driver of what we think, what we feel and ultimately what we can do because they set the basic level of alertness. Vision has such a powerful
0:15.9	effect on how we feel at a basic level and has such a tremendous capacity to shift how we feel and how we perform cognitively and behaviorally, that we realize that we had to study
0:30.0	how vision drives stress, how vision drives calm, how vision drives the ability to move through
0:36.4	complex environments or high stress environments, and really trying to understand how we see the world,
0:42.4	how we view the world drives our experience of life, both internally and in terms of what we can do externally. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.
1:03.8	I just gotta tell you, I love this community.
1:05.6	I love what we are building here.
1:08.0	And if you're new, my name is Michael Jervay,
1:10.2	by Trade and Training.
1:11.7	I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologistologist as well as the co-founder of
1:14.5	Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations is to sit with people who have
1:20.2	dedicated their life efforts towards the nuances of their craft.
1:25.4	And in some cases these conversations are really about mastery of self, other times it's a
1:29.8	hybrid between that and mastery of craft. And really what we're doing is we're trying to
1:34.5	understand how do they organize their inner life to explore the external world
1:39.4	how do they make sense of themselves and explain events that take place?
1:44.0	What are they really searching for?
1:47.0	And then what are the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft?
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