Arthur Brooks

You just have to put it in proper boundaries and have some rules in your life, right?

And actually have some proper habits.

And, you know, our life is, if you have a fairly functional life, you've got good habits already, right?

I mean, you get up at a certain time, you work out every day, you exercise,

You eat something you don't eat like an 11 year old.

I mean, you have good habits and then you just put protocols around it.

It's like Huberman talks about protocols and which has kind of infected the culture.

It's a culture of protocols.

And I'm an absolute believer in that when it comes to your phone.

I mean, you wake up in the morning, if you can, don't look at it at all for the first hour for neurocognitive programming.

If you're a journalist or you have your job, you got to look at it, make sure nothing's on fire, put it down.

That's it for the hour, right?

First hour of the day.

While you eat, neurocognitive programming while you eat is critically important.

It's best not to eat alone and never eat with your device.

Why?

The neuropeptides in your brain, most notably oxytocin, they flow very liberally when you're eating with somebody.

This is how homo sapiens would establish and foster kin bonds.

is by sitting around a campfire, putting pieces of yak meat into their mouths, discussing their day and looking into each other's eyes.

That's how we're wired.