Episode · Huberman Lab · 2025-07-14
Books mentioned on How Nature & Other Physical Environments Impact Your Focus, Cognition & Health | Dr. Marc Berman
My guest is Dr. Marc Berman, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago whose research explores how different physical environments—particularly nature and patterns found in nature—can positively impact our ability to focus, our cognitive performance and our mental and physical health.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Daily Rituals
Discussed“I've been listening to this book uh that unfortunately is only available as an audio book called Daily Rituals, which it's got two-minute chapters, and it describes the daily rituals of writers and artists and creatives.”
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a productivity guide that explores the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks, arguing that this skill is increasingly rare and valuable in a modern economy.
Discussed“I don't know if Kale Newport talks about this in his deep work, but, you know, I've heard people talking about in an office, you might want to have like a separate area of your office for deep work.”
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Why We Sleep
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is a comprehensive examination of the profound biological and psychological impacts that sleep has on human health, learning, and longevity.
Discussed“Matt Walker, UC Berkeley with the book Why We Sleep transformed what we now understand and I and others have been, you know, arguing that people need sleep.”
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Can't Hurt Me
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins is a powerful memoir detailing the author's harrowing childhood, severe abuse, and the extraordinary physical and mental resilience he developed to transform into an endurance icon and Navy SEAL.
Discussed“David Gogggins, who's kind of the I don't know if you're familiar with David, but author of Can't Hurt Me, and he's been on this podcast and a real proponent of doing hard things every single day”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.”