#666: In Case You Missed It: March 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Andrew Huberman (1:44)

At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.

Tim Ferriss (1:48)

Can I ask you a personal question?

Tim Ferriss (2:07)

Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers of all different types to tease out the routines, habits and so on that you can apply to your own life.

This is a special In-Between episode, which serves as a recap of the episodes from the last month. It features a short clip from each conversation in one place so you can jump around, get a feel for both the episode and the guest, and then you can always dig deeper by going to one of those episodes. View this episode as a buffet to whet your appetite. It's a lot of fun, we had fun putting it together, and for the full list of the guests featured today, see the episode's description probably right below wherever you press play in your podcast app, or as usual, you can head to tim.blogslashpodcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

Tim Ferriss (2:57)

First up, Dr. Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University's School of Medicine.

Andrew Huberman (3:11)

I've doubled down on the idea, which perhaps I stated last time we spoke and perhaps not, but I certainly believe that our state of mind and body at any point in time is strongly dictated by our state of mind and body in the hours and days prior to that. And on the one hand, people are gonna hear that and say, well, duh, if you're sleep deprived, you're gonna feel like garbage. And if you're well rested, you'll feel great. That's kind of the top contour of it. But when one looks at the neuroscience, for instance, of sleep, you start to realize that, you know, the amount of rapid eye movement sleep that you're gonna get in any 90 minute bout of sleep, because your sleep is broken up into these 90 minute segments, more or less, is strongly dictated by the ratio of slow wave sleep, AKA deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep that you had in the previous 90 minute bout.

And then when you start to look at the research in terms of waking states, you start to find that your ability to be focused, say, for a bout of work in the morning or the afternoon or a creative brainstorm session or to maybe drill into some personal issue that you're dealing with during therapy or just on a walk or while journaling is not a square wave function. None of us should sit down and expect ourselves to just drop into that state.

Much of our ability to move into that state effectively, whatever effective means, whatever the target or goal of that bout, as I'm calling it, is, is going to be dictated by what happened in the previous moments and hours.