Episode · Huberman Lab · 2026-11-02
Andrew Huberman & Robert Greene: books mentioned on Huberman Lab (Nov 2026)
Access the Sublime & Live Your Best Life | Robert Greene
Robert Greene is a bestselling author on human nature, individual expression and growth. He explains the sublime and how to access it: in relationships, work, through observation, expression and more.
Andrew Huberman recommended Mastery by Robert Greene, and discussed The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and others, The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene, The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley, and TOWARDS THE SUBLIME by Robert Greene. Robert Greene discussed The Law of the Sublime by Robert Greene, Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov, The Gospel of Matthew by Arno Clemens Gaebelein, and Dersu Uzala by Vladimir Arsenyev.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mastery
Mastery by Robert Greene is a non-fiction book that explores the paths to achieving high-level expertise through historical examples and psychological insights.
Recommended“Another one of his books, entitled Mastery, remains one of my all-time favorite books, and is one that I have recommended to the students I've taught in classes, in my laboratory, and to my friends and family and acquaintances for years.”
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers is a provocative guide examining the historical mechanics of influence, strategy, and social dynamics.
Discussed“So if 48 Laws of Power was about how the world is constructed and how to navigate it, and mastery was about mentorship and how to realize our unique gifts and potential.”
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The Laws of Human Nature
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene is an exhaustive examination of human psychology, social behavior, and the underlying motivations that drive people's actions.
Discussed“And Laws of Human Nature, you've written a lot of books, my friend, is how we understand ourselves and others in the context of general principles.”
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay chronicling the author's psychedelic experiences and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Discussed“Because the way I'm looking at it is that you're actually seeing things as they are, because your brain is filtering down things for you and creating this familiarity and the sameness so that your mind isn't overwhelmed with chaos, so that you can get through that, you know, Aldous Huxley indoors of perception was calling the mind at large”
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The Law of the Sublime
The Law of the Sublime by Robert Greene is a forthcoming work by the renowned author that explores strategic thinking, power, and human nature.
Discussed“So I talk in the book about the artist Cézanne, who was obsessed with vision and the visual arena and how he could alter his vision by focusing on things, right? And so his expression was, we humans are given consciousness so that we can spread consciousness everywhere.”
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov is an autobiographical memoir that explores the author's early life as a Russian aristocrat prior to the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“He has no photographs, no memorabilia, no family left, but he has this memory of this magical childhood. And so his experiment, he wrote a book called Speak Memory in which he tries to recreate the experience of his childhood in the adult mind, remembering it, not remembering facts, but remembering the experience.”
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The Gospel of Matthew
Discussed“He kind of fell in love with the idea of Christ, and he did a film literally recreating the Gospel according to Matthew, the book of Matthew in the New Testament. He uses all of the words from that chapter, and he use any chronologically goes through all of the experiences of Christ”
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Dersu Uzala
Discussed“I have a story in the book about this Russian scientist in the turn of the 20th century, who's a geographer who sent to Siberia to kind of discover, to give a map of Siberia, the forest they're called the taiga. And he encounters in the middle of this an indigenous hunter named Dersu, Dersu Usela, a famous book and”
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TOWARDS THE SUBLIME
Discussed“As somebody who just finished a book by hand after seven years and really grinding it out and God bless you for doing it and have written all these other amazing books that I have read and that I do love, what's the next book?”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Robert Green is a renowned author of books such as The Laws of Human Nature, The 48 Laws of Power, and The Art of Seduction.”
“Robert Green is a renowned author of books such as The Laws of Human Nature, The 48 Laws of Power, and The Art of Seduction.”
“Robert Green is a renowned author of books such as The Laws of Human Nature, The 48 Laws of Power, and The Art of Seduction.”
“And I'm thrilled you've written this new book, The Law of the Sublime. I'm so excited. I haven't read it yet because I just got it from you today.”
“Do you march through these sorts of, I want to say doors to perception, but that was Huxley, right? And he championed the use of LSD to get access to and go through some of those doors.”
“What I'm about to ask is somewhat of a merge between some of your prior books. Sure. About power, about personalities, about performers, and the newest book coming out soon about the sublime.”
“But in researching this and writing the law of the sublime, did you ever think about like, what was the experience of some of the people that you had written about earlier? Like the intense life of somebody like 50 Cent, the intense life of some of the people you wrote about and the laws of seduction, who are these”
“So I have a chapter called the love sublime. And it's not the art of seduction of people going, "Robert, have you changed?" And I go, "Well, no, seduction is a book on itself, but love is something different."”
“But I tell you recently, I saw a film that I loved by this director, Pasolini, Italian director, and it was called The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, and literally Pasolini, who was a homosexual Marxist, and was pretty much an atheist, he grew up in Italian Catholic culture.”
“Thank you for joining me for today's discussion with Robert Green to learn more about his work and to find links to his various books, including his new book, The Art of the Sublime.”