Andrew Huberman

And I'm okay with that.

So interesting.

I think some of us grew up or somehow internalized the idea that if somebody is angry or is criticizing us and it's being delivered in a certain way, that it must be true.

versus the ability to just really step back and assess, no, it could very well be they're in a bad mood, they didn't sleep well.

I grew up in a community of academics, some athletes, mostly academics.

So everyone around me wasn't necessarily hyper-verbal, but you know this from training in Boston, there was a way of delivering a criticism

that felt like a poison dart that would get right to the heart of it without calling somebody a name.

This is actually a very prized skill in academia and medicine.

I think it's one of the more sinister aspects of higher education and medicine, but it exists in every field.

But people aren't gonna say,

Oh, dude, you know, like that was stupid.

They're going to find a way to kind of thread that heat-seeking missile, right?

And I think that sometimes getting to this thing about emotion versus language, the more primitive the expression, the I hate you, F you, like it's easier, like you said with the person in the clinic on K2, it's easier to say like they're crazy.

They're on drugs.

They are ill.

But when something is delivered in a way that's very articulate or calm, we tend to give it more credit as likely to be true.

So on the internet, I see most of what comes at me that's negative as – I like to think there's also learning there.

But the way it's delivered, the way I've noticed things get past my force field is –

I go, oh, wait, wait, wait.

Like they'll say like a PubMed ID.