Episode · Huberman Lab · 2024-12-30
Andrew Huberman & Jordan Peterson: books mentioned on Huberman Lab
How to Best Guide Your Life Decisions & Path | Dr. Jordan Peterson
In this episode, my guest is Dr. Jordan Peterson, Ph.D., psychologist, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, best-selling author, and prominent online educator. We discuss the biology of human emotions and motivations, healthy versus destructive impulses, addictions, and generative drives.
Andrew Huberman recommended The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and others and Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp, and discussed We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson and Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke. Jordan Peterson recommended The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade, The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann, and The Discovery Of The Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger, and discussed Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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We Who Wrestle with God
Discussed“and as Dr Peterson emphasizes in his new book we who wrestle with God he emphasizes the use of story in this case biblical stories to understand oneself and to best guide one's actions towards the most positive and generative outcomes”
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The Sacred and the Profane
Recommended“something I tried to talk to Dawkins about the the greatest historian of religions who ever lived was mer eliad and he wrote a sequence of brilliant books um the sacred and the profane is the best one to start with very short book very elegant book”
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Dopamine Nation
Discussed“a colleague of mine at Stanford who I um respect tremendously Anna lmy who wrote the book dopamine Nation”
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Maps of Meaning
Discussed“In my class, 'Maps of Meaning,' I used to have students do this as a project, and one of the projects was to find something in your neighborhood or family that isn’t right and see if you can set it right—just write down what happens.”
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
Recommended“and also um Eric neyman's book uh the Origins and history of Consciousness that's a harder one”
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Recommended“um the book is called the courage to be disliked and I highly recommend it to everybody”
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The Discovery Of The Unconscious
Recommended“if you like that book and you're interested in all three of them let's say there's a great book called discovery of the unconscious which was written by a man named hre elenberger who was the foremost exponent of existential psychology in the 1950s brilliant brilliant scholar and it is the best analysis of Freud Jung and Adler that's ever”
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Affective Neuroscience
Recommended“yeah the closest one I ever encountered probably is affective Neuroscience panp book”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so for example in this in this book and we who wrestle with God I'm one of the stories I analyze is the story of Abraham”
“and I outlin that in in in this book we who wrestle with God Eric neyman Carl Yung Mach eliat a host of others outlined the patterns of religious thinking”
“for those of you that haven't heard I have a new book coming out it's my very first book it's entitled protocols an operating manual for the human body”
“it's entitled protocols an operating manual for the human body this is a book that I've been working on for more than 5 years and that's based on more than 30 years of research and experience”
“For those of you that haven't heard, I have a new book coming out; it's my very first book; it's entitled 'Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.'”