Modern Wisdom

Podcast Notes

• Ways to safely add friction to your life & raise stress threshold to enhance your ability to stay calm under pressure: cold shower, ice bath, cyclic hyperventilation – stress grows you
• Grief is a motivated state of being highly alert but very sad, where we try to bridge the space and time of a loved one but it’s impossible since that person is gone – the brain has to confront the reality that someone is gone
• The ability to feel the feelings helps you move through a breakup: women reportedly experience higher levels of emotional pain during a breakup but recover more fully over time; men rarely fully recover
• If we expose regularly expose ourselves to things that trigger high levels of dopamine release, we will actually lower our baseline levels of dopamine over time
• To maintain high levels of motivation, try intermittent rewards: celebrate successes every other time, every tenth time, etc. to blunt dopamine response, prevent crashes, and keep you on the path to bigger goals
• Lessons from Lex Fridman: There are a lot of energy pits but success is really about not allowing energy to dissipate into negative trails (e.g., fighting people online, cynics, etc.)
• Evolutionarily, mating is a test as to whether two people can coordinate autonomic nervous systems
• Actual + perceived = reality: any event causes a real physiological response, but that response is entangled with our expectation of what the response should be
• Tap into whatever eating system works for you – but one thing is true, consistency helps anchor your sleep schedule
• Light, exercise, and temperature (hot and cold) are potent stimuli for creating hormonal and neuromodulator effects – it works the first time and every time

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Dr Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a podcaster.

The mind and the body are intimately linked. Trying to improve your mental outcomes without thinking of your physical inputs is a losing battle, but the question of which inputs to use, and when is a huge challenge. Thankfully, Dr Huberman is one of the best communicators of high performance advice on the planet and has a lot of answers.

Expect to learn the neuroscience of getting over your ex, how David Goggins trained himself to lean into fear, whether dopamine detoxing really works, the most important things to avoid doing during your morning routine, just how worried we should be about men's testosterone levels dropping, what everyone can learn about endurance from Lex Fridman, why Andrew doesn't show his tattoos and much more...

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