Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-04-17
Lex Fridman & Andrew Huberman: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #277
#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Brave: https://brave.
Andrew Huberman recommended On the Move by Oliver Sacks, Your Brain Is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano, Attached by Amir Levine and others, and Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell, and discussed Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque and Observing the erotic imagination by Robert J. Stoller. Lex Fridman recommended Projections by Karl Deisseroth, and discussed All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Move
On the Move by Oliver Sacks is a memoir by the renowned neurologist and writer that chronicles his eventful life, career, and intellectual development.
Recommended“he has a great biography called on the Move there's a wonderful documentary that just came out about him”
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Projections
Projections by Karl Deisseroth is a remarkable exploration of human emotions and psychiatry that uses real patient interactions to illustrate how the brain functions in both healthy and diseased states.
Recommended“actually uh Carl daero gu daero he he uh wrote the book projections one of my favorite first of all just as you said incredible writer just amazing just I mean if you wrote fiction if you wrote those kinds of things I'm curious to see where he goes with his writing”
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel that depicts the profound physical and psychological trauma experienced by young German soldiers during the First World War.
Discussed“remember that book um All Quiet on the Western Front by World War I there's this line in there I forget what it is about how war is like the smell of a skunk like a little bit is actually a little is slightly um there's something slightly delicious of it”
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Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel depicting the brutal physical and psychological realities experienced by young German soldiers during World War I.
Discussed“Do you remember the book 'All Quiet on the Western Front' from World War I? There's a line that compares war to the smell of a skunk—from there’s an almost delicious quality in experiencing it.”
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Your Brain Is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano is an exploration of the neuroscience and physics of time perception, written by a prominent professor at UCLA.
Recommended“uh there's a wonderful book I'm forgetting the title so wonderful I forget the title by Dean buano from UC CLA I think it's called the brain is a time machine”
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Observing the erotic imagination
Discussed“There's a book called 'The Erotic Imagination.' It's a very psychoanalytic book written by a psychoanalyst that talks about—well, here's the uncomfortable reality: Freud was at least right about one thing, which is that the brain circuitry that you use to develop attachments to your caregivers, mother and father, or other caregivers do not disappear when you hit puberty.”
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Attached
Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's psychological guide explores adult attachment styles and offers practical insights into finding and keeping romantic love based on scientific research.
Recommended“the book attached is a pretty interesting book by uh two psychologists one I think is at Columbia University um that talks about how childhood Dynamics uh carry over to adult uh romantic attachment”
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Can Love Last?
Can Love Last? by Stephen A.
Recommended“and so this the book is the name is kind of corny but the it's written by an analyst again it's called can love last and it's a book about how really good strong relationships are the consequence of people constantly moving through this um dependency objectification Dynamic”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“just like the little version of me when I was six or seven I used to spend all weekend reading the encyclopedia Guinness Book of World Records making my mother drive me places to introduce me to”
“like the little version of me when I was six or seven I used to spend all weekend reading the encyclopedia Guinness Book of World Records”