REWIRE YOUR MIND FOR SUCCESS - Powerful Motivational Speech | Andrew Huberman Motivation

Andrew Huberman (0:00)

A lot of life is about forcing yourself to be interested in things you don't really want to do.

Keep in mind the friction you feel trying to learn something, that's adrenaline. Remember, how do we block learning? We block adrenaline. Being alert but calm or a little stressed and making errors through deliberate attempts to do something, not just throw away errors, that's how you learn, why? If I can reach out and grab this pen, my brain doesn't change. One of the biggest lies in public education about neuroscience is that every experience changes your brain. By the time I'm done saying this, your brain will be different. No, that's absolutely not true. That's a bunch of hooey. You know what induces neuroplasticity? Being a baby who's trying to learn or being an adult, who's forcing yourself to try and learn and you can't do the thing. The error is what stimulates the plasticity.

There's two kinds of practice. One is practicing doing things I already know how to do. There, you're aiming for 100% performance, right? You're reinforcing what you already know how to do. Talk to a great dancer and they'll tell you they drill, drill, drill, drill the things they already know how to do. But when you're trying to learn the new language, the new emotional skill, the new physical skill, the new cognitive emotional skill, you need to make genuine attempts and you need to fail some of the time. And those failure signals are relayed to your cerebellum and your cerebellum propagates through networks that say change.

The best way to learn is to not forget. Meaning if you test yourself, that's how you maintain and build knowledge over time, self testing. It's not about optimization per se, it's about being a human being and learning and making meaning out of what's going on. Organizing one's thoughts sometimes in that way can be helpful.

Happy people fulfill outward roles. They fulfill roles, father, mother, sister, brother, they look at themselves as somebody who needs to fulfill roles. Teacher, mechanic, engineer, podcaster, but you have to shut up, suit up and show up. You need to fulfill roles. There is no human being that doesn't have to do stuff for the world. You can't freeload. But then there's this other bin, which is, if you carry on like that for 10, 20, 30 years, you can end up quite happy, but most of the time, if people just do those things, they end up pretty miserable. The other piece is, once a day, you need to get out of role fulfillment. You need to get out of preparation. Take some space for yourself and just touch in with self. Now, if you're sitting there going, okay, what do I want to be when I grow up? It should happen. It's not the way it works. Your unconscious mind speaks to you in emotions, in analogies, and it sets you up to go back into life, to be able to see connections and start navigating in new and interesting ways. Ways that are unique to your heart's desires about what you like and what you don't like, and to know that those choices are in goodness and in keeping with who you are. You need to listen to yourself. How do I find my calling? You find it while working your butt off doing something else. That's how.

SPEAKER_2 (3:09)

You've written 10 of the protocols you want to focus on sharing today. Can I ask, why did you choose those 10?

Andrew Huberman (3:15)

They're the ones that are going to move the needle the most in terms of one's mental health, physical health, and quote unquote performance. Your life will be so much better if you do them.

SPEAKER_2 (3:25)

Do they cost a lot of money to do the 10 that you've picked?

Andrew Huberman (3:28)

No. They could be done either at completely zero cost or on an existing budget.

SPEAKER_2 (3:32)

Do you do these 10 things?

Andrew Huberman (3:34)

Every day. Protocols synergize. They ratchet together. How well you slept last night is dictating how well you feel now.

These are gears in a larger system. One moves, the other ones move. Ultimately, these gears fit together based on what you do. Protocol number one is hydrate. Your mind is exceedingly more sharp when you're well hydrated.

SPEAKER_2 (3:55)

When you say hydrate, do you mean electrolytes or just water?

Andrew Huberman (3:58)

16 to 32 ounces of good clean water is fine. If you want to add electrolytes, great.

SPEAKER_2 (4:02)

It's like a big mug.

Andrew Huberman (4:04)

You want to consume about 80 ounces of water throughout your day. The next thing, and this is really key, it could have gone first, but you want to view sunlight or 10,000 lux artificial light.