Neuroscientist Reveals How To Stop Feeling Lazy & Unmotivated | Dr. Andrew Huberman EP 729

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today's episode breaks down how the mind and body are connected and how it can help you overcome laziness with Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman. Check out the full episode: https://link.chtbl.com/1015-pod

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Today's episode is all about unlocking the power of your mind.
0:12.0	Having a growth mindset is one of the most crucial decisions you can make in your life.
0:18.0	Mental toughness can allow you to respond instead of react.
0:22.0	To be in control instead of out of control
0:25.0	and give you the endurance you need to follow your dreams.
0:29.0	The body has a huge and profound influence on our mind and the reason is that we often talk about the brain and we think the brain the brain the brain the brain is important but the brain and the spinal cord which is makes up what we call the central nervous system are extensively connected with the body and the body is extensively connected with the brain and spinal cord
0:56.2	Every organ in our body our heart our diaphragm our lungs or spleen our liver all of it is is is as we say innervated.
1:03.7	If we were to just dissolve away everything except the nervous system.
1:07.1	If we had a human nervous system displayed out here on the table in front of us,
1:10.8	it would look like a human being. There have been thousands of years of debates about what's the mind, what's the brain, etc. The mind-body problem, all that. I think it's fair to say that states of mind include the brain, the activity of the brain and the body.
1:28.0	Those two things coordinate. The brain and the body have a sort of what I call a contract. The brain does really five things.
1:36.4	We have sensation. We're constantly being bombarded with sound waves and light and smells
1:42.4	and things and smells and things.
1:43.0	And that stuff is ongoing and you can't negotiate that.
1:46.0	Then there's perception which is which sensations you are paying attention to.
1:50.0	The perceptions are where your attention is, which sensations you're attending to.
1:54.9	And then you have thoughts, and thoughts get a little complicated for us to parse because they are
1:59.7	a little bit abstract, but thoughts are a combination of our perception, whatever it is we're
2:04.8	attending to, and they have context memory. You know, they're tapped into our memory
2:09.0	systems. And then there are feelings slash emotions.
2:14.6	And this is where it really starts to get abstract and kind of hazy
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