Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-10-30
Books mentioned on Build A Mind That’s Wired For Health & Happiness - Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Andrew Huberman discussed Jaws by Sandra Kahn and others, Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, and Forever Strong by Gabrielle Lyon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jaws
Jaws by Sandra Kahn and Paul R.
Discussed“so I arrived carrying a copy of the book Jaws a hidden epidemic this is not Jaws the shark uh this book was written by my colleagues at Stamford sandre Khan and Paul Erick”
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Mindset
Mindset by Carol S.
Discussed“Then my colleague Carol Dweck, also in the Psychology Department at Stanford, most famously known for her work on mindset, did an experiment in which she essentially asked whether or not tenacity and willpower are limited as a sort of resource and also whether or not they’re linked to glucose availability, fuel, in the brain and body.”
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Forever Strong
Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Dr.
Discussed“But talk to me about what would be happening to the brain of somebody like Tom who pivots from being maybe 40 pounds overweight, I don't know how big he got at his biggest, but lost a good bit of weight and it wasn't just losing weight, it was then gaining muscle. So Dr. Gabrielle Lyon's work, like muscle-centric medicine.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Guns, Germs and Steel
“and it has an introduction by Jared Diamond who won a Pitzer for gun stms and steel and a forward by the great Robert spolski also a colleague of mine at Stanford”
Passing Guns, Germs and Steel
“This book was written by my colleagues at Stanford, Sandra Khan and Paul Ehrlich, and it has an introduction by Jared Diamond, who won a Pulitzer for 'Guns, Germs, and Steel,' and a foreword by the great Robert Sapolsky, also a colleague of mine at Stanford.”
Passing Behave
“You mentioned Sapolsky; I had him on the show recently. What do you think most people misunderstand about stress? Obviously, he's contributed an awful lot to this, and you've thought about this too.”
Passing The War of Art
“Those harder tasks where you have to breach some barrier, some resistance to put it into, you know, Steven Pressfield language, or our friend David Goggins, right? You know, this idea that one has to callous the mind.”