436: Lean Into The Pain. it Will Make You Better. With Andrew Huberman

I know this in my heart is that my desire has always been to put valuable information into the world that people can benefit from and to do it at zero-cost and to do that to the best of my ability.

I've cheated on people and that sucks. I would never... want to validate or support that as a success, right? That represents failure. Cheating represents failure, not success. That's clear.

We as humans are complicated. We do some things right. We make mistakes. But to ascribe intention to, like, why people do things? ... They sort of tried to tie dopamine neurobiology to protocols in the podcast to like... diabolical, like, controlling mastermind. Listen, I'm just trying to get through the week.

I've always worked, like, somewhere between like 70 and 80, sometimes 100, hours a week. Sometimes I throttle back. Now it's, you know, a little more segmented.

I think 50% of having a self is standing your ground around what you know and believe to be right and true ... The other half is hearing what's coming in and going, 'Oh, whoa. Okay, maybe.' Or, 'Whoa, okay, you're right.'