Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and

Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today, we're going to talk all about how to optimize your workspace for maximum productivity.

Indeed, that means to heighten levels of focus, to increase levels of creativity, to improve your ability to task switch.

And this could be for say go school or for work, creative endeavors, personal endeavors.

This really extends to everybody. Most often when we hear about how to focus or how to get the most out of our work sessions,

we hear about the biology and the psychology of that.

We hear about dopamine and we hear about serotonin and we hear about caffeine.

And indeed, those are topics that I've covered a lot on the Huberman Lab podcast.

Today, we will touch on each of those,

but we are mainly going to focus on how we arrange our physical environment and indeed how we arrange ourselves in that physical environment in order to bring out the best in our neurobiology.

That is how to put ourselves into a heightened state of focus by virtue of things as simple as where we place our screen relative to our eyes at a given time of day.

Believe it or not, there's excellent research on this and there's excellent research, for instance, on whether or not you should or should not listen to music.

Whether or not you should use things like binarital beats and if so, what frequency of binarital beats?

We are going to cover all of that and by the end, you will have a checklist of things that you can do to optimize your workspace on any budget.

I will mention various products and apps that some of you might find useful for optimizing your workspace,

but I want to emphasize at the outset that none of those that I mentioned are any products or apps that we have a financial relationship to.

And more importantly, you don't need them. I'm going to explain how for zero cost, you can arrange your workspace in ways that makes you maximally productive,

maximally focused and allows you to adapt your workspace to different environments, whether or not you're traveling, working with others, working alone, etc.

Just to give you a little hint of where we are going, I will mention a zero-cost app that will deliver binarital beats at a particular frequency that peer-reviewed research has shown can enhance certain types of learning and memory.

However, peer-reviewed research also shows that it can diminish performance in other types of tasks.

So stay tuned, we'll go into all the details so that you can optimize your workspace for zero cost and get the most out of your efforts and endeavors.

...