Episode · Huberman Lab · 2025-04-07
Andrew Huberman & Lori Gottlieb: books mentioned on Huberman Lab
How to Find & Be a Great Romantic Partner | Lori Gottlieb
My guest is Lori Gottlieb, MFT, a psychotherapist and bestselling author who specializes in helping people build strong relationships by first understanding themselves and the stories they’ve internalized about themselves and others.
Andrew Huberman recommended The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, and discussed 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Eddy and The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. Lori Gottlieb discussed The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
Recommended“I happen to be reading it's a hard book a genuinely difficult book but I'm really enjoying it um I'm reading Erns Becker's the denial of death highly recommend it to everyone a Pulitzer after all you don't need my endorsement”
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High Fidelity
Recommended“There's a great line in that movie High Fidelity based on the Nick Hornby novel, which I also highly recommend where he's like, you know, people tell me that we should listen to our gut.”
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The Paradox of Choice
Discussed“Well, I think what the apps do is there's a phenomenon that Barry Schwarz talks about in his book, The Paradox of Choice.”
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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life
Discussed“Bill Eddie was on this podcast. He's a therapist and lawyer and he wrote the book uh I think it was like five types of people that will ruin your life.”
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The Creative Act
Discussed“Rick Rubin talked a little bit about this in his book the creative act like we need to be on the front end of the of the vehicle experiencing space and time”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“so the workbook came about because um, I wrote this book called Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and it's the stories of it's my story going to therapy and then it's the story of these four other patients that I had”
Plugged Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“So, the workbook came about because um, I wrote this book called Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and it's the stories of it's my story going to therapy and then it's the story of these four other patients that I had and um, when I working with them and um, and people said, "Wow, there was so much that”
Plugged Protocols
“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.”
Plugged Protocols
“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.”