Dr. Andrew Huberman

There's a warm-up, there's some dynamic stretching, there's perhaps some just getting your mind in the groove, you know, this sort of thing.

Neural circuits are not on-off.

It's not a square wave function.

It takes some time to ease into a mode of focus.

And so my suggestion, Nick, is that you and others that struggle with focus think about the do-nots, the distractions that clearly are intervening in our ability to focus nowadays.

but also as you think about the things to explore, which may include these pharmaceutical tools, of course prescribed by a licensed physician, but that you consider that perhaps the expectations that you're placing on yourself to focus are too immediate and that you should train these up more gradually over time, which is not to say that you should settle on having limited focus, but that this is a skill

that you can develop like any other skill, that your nervous system is capable of plasticity throughout the lifespan.

We absolutely know that.

And given that I'm presuming, I don't know why I'm presuming that you're a young person, but even if you're not, that you can increase your ability to access these narrow trenches of focus, even for things that don't delight you.

But I hope you are also doing some things that delight you.

So I was told that's the final question.

I'm going to take that very seriously and somewhat unfortunately for me because I could go all night.

I've really enjoyed tonight.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Just thank you.

Thanks so much.

Thank you.

Truly, thank you.