Dr. Andrew Huberman

the word wholeheartedness.

I think that where we recover ourselves is by relating to and

engaging with things and people that we wholeheartedly enjoy even if that is simply relaxation or gardening or drawing or maybe just doing nothing for a bit.

I think burnout is very real and I think burnout as pushed through the filter of what we've been talking about earlier in the evening is when we are not getting periodic

experiences, if you will, of delight or excitement or a sense of meaning.

And here we're starting to drift into kind of abstract.

You know, not everyone gets to do a job that they delight in.

Certainly there were years where I didn't delight in the sorts of things I had to do for certain jobs.

But finding some areas of life that create those neural energy states that carry forward, that wick out into other aspects of what we're doing.

And I don't know if I made this point clear enough earlier, but those moments of, you know, really feeling excited about something in a way that really lights you up in particular are not just about that moment and seeking out more of those moments, but in the way that it lifts our nervous system, the way it carries us forward and allows us to do the other things that we have to do, which frankly sometimes can be not as exciting or even drudgery.

So if you've burnt out

I know the feeling.

I have burnt out before.

And I encourage a combination of rest, but also exploration of things that can evoke that kind of internal excitement or sense of meaning.

And one has to be a bit of a forager in order to do that, try new things, and that can be difficult.

But burnout is real, and I encourage you to take it seriously because, unfortunately, typically what follows burnout is depression, and then things can really run ashore.

What types of food do you try to eat every day and why?

Oh, I love to eat.

I do, I love to eat.

I even like the mere act of chewing so much.