Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia
Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 189 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's focused on changing behavior. Everyone's focused on increasing willpower to overcome this tendency. |
| 0:06.6 | And it's like, why not just change the tendency? That sounds so simple, but that's literally what we do in psychotherapy every day. |
| 0:13.6 | When we come in and someone has a narcissistic personality disorder, this is personality. This is who they are. |
| 0:23.1 | And we can psychotherapize them to be someone else for their natural thoughts to change, for the way that they see the world to change, |
| 0:29.9 | for their behaviors to change on its own. It doesn't require willpower is necessary when you are |
| 0:35.0 | trying to not be narcissistic. It is not necessary when you are no longer narcissistic. |
| 0:39.7 | So we've done it in psychotherapy. |
| 0:41.1 | We know that if your self-esteem changes, if your sense of being changes, treatment refractory depression will change. |
| 0:48.8 | Trauma, PTSD will change. |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for |
| 0:55.8 | everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology |
| 1:03.9 | at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Alok Canogia, also known as Dr. K. |
| 1:10.7 | Dr. K is a psychiatrist and online mental health |
| 1:13.4 | educator. He has a very unique background, having trained and earned his medical degree in the |
| 1:18.3 | United States, but also having studied as a monk for seven years. Today, we discuss powerful |
| 1:23.8 | tools for increasing your self-understanding and mental health and for rewiring your |
| 1:28.3 | nervous system, specifically how you can unlearn unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors and |
| 1:33.4 | replace them with ones that truly serve you and those around you. Much of today's discussion |
| 1:38.1 | centers around differences between eastern and western concepts of things like the ego and what |
| 1:43.2 | makes up our self-concept. |
| 1:45.1 | That portion of the conversation will no doubt have you rethinking why you do what you do |
| 1:49.2 | in virtually everything. And he provides a roadmap for clearly defining your best goals |
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