Andrew Huberman

And I won't lie, it felt good to get at a place like Stanford, even though there are many fantastic and extremely challenging places to achieve that.

It felt like the culmination of, you know, 20 years of

Very hard work that I enjoyed, but that, you know, it represented an important milestone for me.

But I knew I would just say, and of course, we're just we're talking about this example, but hopefully people are thinking about examples in their own lives.

But I knew, for instance, I never want to be a department chair.

Tons of work doing administrative stuff.

I remember when they told me you'll be vice chair and I'm like, oh my goodness, what do I have to do to avoid that?

I also knew that I didn't care about being a member of the National Academy.

A close childhood friend of mine was just elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

We've been friends since we were seven and I'm so happy for him.

Because he's doing exactly what he loves.

But I never aspired to be a member of the National Academy.

Ever.

Why?

Because what came after tenure in order to go there was a divergence from what I really wanted to do.

Do you think that's especially true for people who have large followings on social media?

What about the, you know, to each their own mindset?

Like some people will like the content.

I tell myself this, you know, some people will like the content and the way I frame it and will look at it on the whole that, you know, some episodes more than others, you know, certain things and others won't.

They'll hate it for whatever reason or hate me for whatever reason.