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How to trigger real focus before you study: - Before you start, run a silent script in your head: "I need to learn this" - Tell yourself the information is important to voluntarily ramp up alertness and focus - Don't wait for material to pull your attention out of... you - engage it volitionally - When your mind drifts, bring it back, constantly. That is the work - Put on a hoodie and hat as blinders so you can only attend to what's in front of you - Expect strain and agitation. That's the signal, not a failure The strain reflects release of neuromodulators like epinephrine, which cue your circuits that they need to change later. No strain, no neuroplasticity. Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.show more

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JJoonWick7 days ago

Will teach this to my daughter, thank u

Manimal7 days ago

I usually refrain from eating if I want to focus…unless I’m starving of course. It triggers my ancient DNA. Great post 👍🏻

🩷 avababe7 days ago

I tried that and now my brain’s got a “Do Not Disturb” sign, but my coffee’s still yelling for attention. 😎

grindology6 days ago

beautiful, thank you

raftas7 days ago

Funny juxtaposition to the Lab Clip of Ido. 😄

Ben Lundy6 days ago

Thank you. Very good information to know.

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I think about this twice a day. Every morning when I sit down to read & again when I begin to work, I say to myself, “Accept the initial agitation.” When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, “the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system.” Meaning: “The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.” There’s a common misconception, Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. continues: “the misunderstanding around how these brain circuits work has led to this idea...a kind of obsession with the idea that we have to feel good in order to be productive.” “And nothing could be further from the truth.” The truth is it’s the reverse: we have to be productive—we have to start working, we have to lean in and get going, accepting the initial agitation—in order to feel good. So along with “accept the initial agitation,” sometimes—when I don’t feel especially good, motivated, interested, or energized—I say to myself, “Forget how you feel right now.” “It will feel good,” Huberman says, “but there’s a whole staircase in which it feels kind of lousy...The early stages of hard work and focus are always going to feels like agitation, stress, and confusion.” “Remember: there’s a gate of entry. You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.” - - - “Mood follows action.” — richroll The clip below is from Andrew’s 2020 interview on Rich’s podcast (

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you become what you think about. your dominant thoughts dictate your beliefs, your expectations, and the exact circumstances you pull into your life. if you constantly think about failure, your mind will build a reality to match it. all causation is mental. the only thing in this universe you have absolute power over is your own thinking. shift your focus with emotional conviction, and your external world has no choice but to follow. remember: when you change the way you think, you change the way you live. key concepts in the article bellow.

you become what you think about. your dominant thoughts dictate your beliefs, your expectations, and the exact circumstances you pull into your life. if you constantly think about failure, your mind will build a reality to match it. all causation is mental. the only thing in this universe you have absolute power over is your own thinking. shift your focus with emotional conviction, and your external world has no choice but to follow. remember: when you change the way you think, you change the way you live. key concepts in the article bellow.

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Once you don't focus on stuff to close the gaps of insecurity in your soul, you stop acting in a manner that doesn't match your moral compass and principles … This loop is everything and I hope you realize impressing those who you don't even like is the seed that leads to actions that you don't admire in yourself.

Once you don't focus on stuff to close the gaps of insecurity in your soul, you stop acting in a manner that doesn't match your moral compass and principles … This loop is everything and I hope you realize impressing those who you don't even like is the seed that leads to actions that you don't admire in yourself.

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Andrew Huberman on why you can't think your way out of stress: Huberman is asked what he means when he says you cannot control the mind with the mind. His answer reframes how we should approach stress, anxiety, and emotional regulation entirely. "If you're very upset, it's hard to talk yourself out of it. If you're stressed, it's hard to think yourself out of it." He explains that when we're in heightened emotional states, we tend to default to mental strategies, rationalizing, "third personing" ourselves, texting a friend, trying to reason our way back to calm. But according to Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., this rarely works: "It's very hard to get yourself out of those states with thinking alone." The solution, he argues, lies not in the mind but in the body. "The beauty of the autonomic nervous system is that it traverses the brain and the body and it connects to essentially all the organs of the body. And it's a two-way street such that certain behaviors, even certain patterns of breathing etc. allow us to shift between very very alert and stressed and very calm." This two-way street is the key insight. The body doesn't just receive signals from the brain, it also sends them back. Shifting your physiology shifts your mental state, which in turn shifts the kinds of thoughts and actions available to you. "If you're very very stressed, you're very very upset, two things happen. One, it's very hard to take your focus off whatever it is that's upsetting you. And if you don't know what's upsetting you, you know, pure anxiety, but you don't know why, it's very hard to take your mind off of the feelings of anxiety." In other words, anxiety hijacks your attention and then traps you there. Trying to think your way out only tightens the grip. The way out is to move through the body first: "If we turn to the body and certain behaviors, we are able to move ourselves along the autonomic continuum. And at that point, when we've done that successfully, we are able to think about things differently." "If you can't control the mind with the mind, look to the body to control the mind."

Andrew Huberman on why you can't think your way out of stress: Huberman is asked what he means when he says you cannot control the mind with the mind. His answer reframes how we should approach stress, anxiety, and emotional regulation entirely. "If you're very upset, it's hard to talk yourself out of it. If you're stressed, it's hard to think yourself out of it." He explains that when we're in heightened emotional states, we tend to default to mental strategies, rationalizing, "third personing" ourselves, texting a friend, trying to reason our way back to calm. But according to Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., this rarely works: "It's very hard to get yourself out of those states with thinking alone." The solution, he argues, lies not in the mind but in the body. "The beauty of the autonomic nervous system is that it traverses the brain and the body and it connects to essentially all the organs of the body. And it's a two-way street such that certain behaviors, even certain patterns of breathing etc. allow us to shift between very very alert and stressed and very calm." This two-way street is the key insight. The body doesn't just receive signals from the brain, it also sends them back. Shifting your physiology shifts your mental state, which in turn shifts the kinds of thoughts and actions available to you. "If you're very very stressed, you're very very upset, two things happen. One, it's very hard to take your focus off whatever it is that's upsetting you. And if you don't know what's upsetting you, you know, pure anxiety, but you don't know why, it's very hard to take your mind off of the feelings of anxiety." In other words, anxiety hijacks your attention and then traps you there. Trying to think your way out only tightens the grip. The way out is to move through the body first: "If we turn to the body and certain behaviors, we are able to move ourselves along the autonomic continuum. And at that point, when we've done that successfully, we are able to think about things differently." "If you can't control the mind with the mind, look to the body to control the mind."

Kevin Tanaka

27,792 views • 5 months ago

.Symone D. Sanders Townsend: Graham Platner's team pushed back and denied that it was trying to influence the process ... Maybe we all need a shared definition of what 'influence the process' is. tré easton: The fact that Graham Platner thinks that he can dictate anything at this point is so laughable to me. You forfeited that right when you lied to your constituents, your supporters, your volunteers, your staff, to a group full of Senate Democrats who were trying to vouch for you. No, you don't get to dictate anything. You don't get to go back and forth in these cute little press statements on Twitter. You get to put out a press release saying that I have ended my campaign and the Maine Democratic Party gets to move on and replace you.

.Symone D. Sanders Townsend: Graham Platner's team pushed back and denied that it was trying to influence the process ... Maybe we all need a shared definition of what 'influence the process' is. tré easton: The fact that Graham Platner thinks that he can dictate anything at this point is so laughable to me. You forfeited that right when you lied to your constituents, your supporters, your volunteers, your staff, to a group full of Senate Democrats who were trying to vouch for you. No, you don't get to dictate anything. You don't get to go back and forth in these cute little press statements on Twitter. You get to put out a press release saying that I have ended my campaign and the Maine Democratic Party gets to move on and replace you.

Searchlight Institute

19,914 views • 2 months ago

You need to watch this before you listen to anyone promising to help you SAVE your way out of poverty. I know we prefer to hearing it from people with light skin. Learn or let them deceive you. The only thing that can end your poverty is the system. That’s why you need to change it.

You need to watch this before you listen to anyone promising to help you SAVE your way out of poverty. I know we prefer to hearing it from people with light skin. Learn or let them deceive you. The only thing that can end your poverty is the system. That’s why you need to change it.

Biggest Mack

32,778 views • 1 year ago

NUKING YOUR NOODLES? A HOT TAKE ON PLASTICS Dr Shanna Swan: “The BPA, phthalates, and plasticizers are added to the plastic, but they're not chemically bound to it. So if you put anything in a container that has these chemicals in it and then put it in a hot environment, they will come out of this plastic and go into the food. If you put your bottle in the car, and the sun comes in, and it warms up the bottle, they go into your water.” Source: Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., Shanna Swan, PhD

NUKING YOUR NOODLES? A HOT TAKE ON PLASTICS Dr Shanna Swan: “The BPA, phthalates, and plasticizers are added to the plastic, but they're not chemically bound to it. So if you put anything in a container that has these chemicals in it and then put it in a hot environment, they will come out of this plastic and go into the food. If you put your bottle in the car, and the sun comes in, and it warms up the bottle, they go into your water.” Source: Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D., Shanna Swan, PhD

Mario Nawfal

67,187 views • 1 year ago

"So the easiest thing that I want everyone listening [to do], whether you have one follower or a hundred followers, is to reject inclusive language. Every time media, social media, Hollywood, any of these legacy, left-wing legacy media, when they tell you you can't say something, that is your sign to say that. Whatever they say you can't say, say more of it. Whatever they say you can't bring that up, bring that up more. What you cannot do is to acquiesce. Because once they can control your thoughts, they can control your words and they control your words. They control your habits and your character. And if you're sick of all the things that you're seeing, it starts with you. It starts with your mind. And that's the best advice I can give because that's training your mind to make courage a habit. Reject inclusive language, guard your empathy. And when you do that and you say what they say you can't say or shouldn't say, and you say it anyway, then you've trained your brain to make courage a habit. Once you take that path you will never go back, meaning that if you make courage a habit and you start speaking truth and you start going, I don't care what anybody calls me, call me a racist bigot. It means nothing to me. You might as well say I have like three eyes. It doesn't mean anything to me. If you get to that point, then you'll never go back to self-silencing yourself. If you can overcome that then you're you're on your way to helping make it make a change in this country." Alvin Lui of Courage Is A Habit 💪 🔗

"So the easiest thing that I want everyone listening [to do], whether you have one follower or a hundred followers, is to reject inclusive language. Every time media, social media, Hollywood, any of these legacy, left-wing legacy media, when they tell you you can't say something, that is your sign to say that. Whatever they say you can't say, say more of it. Whatever they say you can't bring that up, bring that up more. What you cannot do is to acquiesce. Because once they can control your thoughts, they can control your words and they control your words. They control your habits and your character. And if you're sick of all the things that you're seeing, it starts with you. It starts with your mind. And that's the best advice I can give because that's training your mind to make courage a habit. Reject inclusive language, guard your empathy. And when you do that and you say what they say you can't say or shouldn't say, and you say it anyway, then you've trained your brain to make courage a habit. Once you take that path you will never go back, meaning that if you make courage a habit and you start speaking truth and you start going, I don't care what anybody calls me, call me a racist bigot. It means nothing to me. You might as well say I have like three eyes. It doesn't mean anything to me. If you get to that point, then you'll never go back to self-silencing yourself. If you can overcome that then you're you're on your way to helping make it make a change in this country." Alvin Lui of Courage Is A Habit 💪 🔗

Geopolitics & Empire

12,141 views • 9 months ago

1. Preperation It's difficult to just switch into full focus mode. You need to prime your brain before it. According to Huberman the BEST way to do so is by staring at one point intensively. Do this for 30 seconds before you start your work sessions. Instant focus boost.

1. Preperation It's difficult to just switch into full focus mode. You need to prime your brain before it. According to Huberman the BEST way to do so is by staring at one point intensively. Do this for 30 seconds before you start your work sessions. Instant focus boost.

brennar

297,750 views • 1 year ago