Dr. Andrew Huberman

One of the perhaps most valuable things that I've ever learned in my work life, my workout life, and just life, I try and apply this everywhere, and I haven't always been successful in doing it, is when I was a graduate student,

At Berkeley, there was a professor there.

His name is Bob Knight.

He's a neurologist.

So he's a clinician and a very good one and also a researcher.

And I remember asking him at the beginning of graduate school, I don't know why I had the nerve to do this, but I caught him outside of the building and I said, what's a piece of advice?

What's to being really good at this whole research science thing?

In addition to reading papers and learning the field and collecting data and I was driven, obviously, but I wanted to know how he was able to do as many things as he did, be a clinician, run a lab.

And he seemed like a

like a pretty chill guy which it turns out he was and I'll never forget what he said he said figure out what you can do consistently each week and don't do any more except under conditions of emergency like a deadline or you know just figure it out he said for him it was something like

eight to nine hours a day of real work.

This was before smartphones, when you would actually go in and do your work.

You didn't have to compete with phone for attention.

And he said for him it was also on the weekends he said that he liked – I'll never forget.

He said he liked mindless recreation that was not destructive.

So like not drinking a lot, not partying a lot, not staying out too late.

But for him it was fishing, hanging out with his family, and I think he was into exercising as well.

So I was like, oh, that's pretty clever.

So I figured out how much I could work per day.

across each week and still continue to do that output.