Dr. Alok Kanojia

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Huberman Lab · Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

And he decides to quit.

So what's really interesting is if we had just solved that, if we'd made his anxiety go away, he would have perpetuated in an unhealthy system.

And this is the thing that I think we forget when we're talking about our emotions.

Like,

Andrew, which part of the brain does anxiety come from?

Sure.

How is it taught?

If you had to teach someone who's taking an undergraduate neuroscience class, and maybe you wouldn't teach it this way, but if you had to localize it to somewhere, where would you localize it to?

To one structure?

Yeah, one structure.

I'm totally with the limbic system as a whole, but the amygdala.

And the really interesting thing is like,

Crocodiles have amygdalas, right?

So we sometimes forget that these negative emotions are actually really important for us.

They're really healthy for us.

One other really interesting example of this is I work with a lot of gamers on the internet.

So sometimes they'll try to engage in mating behaviors.

And they'll creep people out.

And one of the really interesting things that I realized is embarrassment is the best way to not creep someone out.

So if I violate one of your boundaries and then I express embarrassment, that signals to you that I realize I did something wrong.

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