The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain
Dr. Masud Husain is a Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on the science of motivation, apathy, and neurological diseases. We discuss how dopamine and specific brain circuits shape motivation, including how the brain weighs the trade-off between effort vs reward when deciding what goals to pursue. Dr. Husain also explains practical tools to increase motivation, reduce distractions, and make it easier to start and maintain goal pursuit. We also discuss dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, including new insights into cognitive resilience and factors that help protect against age-related cognitive decline.
Show notes: https://go.hubermanlab.com/masud-husain-295
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Masud Husain
(00:02:24) Apathy, Motivation
(00:08:07) Rewards, Apathy & Motivation; Dopamine
(00:13:20) Sponsors: David & BetterHelp
(00:15:44) Types of Apathy; Goal Prioritization: Effort vs Rewards
(00:23:26) Motivation, Apathy, Tool: Activation Energy & Overthinking
(00:29:24) Tools to Increase Motivation: Incentives, Subdivide Tasks, Planning
(00:35:13) Subjective Effort, Mental Framing; Learning & Motivation
(00:42:24) Sponsors: AG1 & Eight Sleep
(00:44:54) Perseverance, Failure; Finding Your Passion, Depression vs Apathy
(00:50:58) Self-Concept, Ambition; Life Satisfaction
(00:58:25) Psychedelics, Anhedonia & Changing Self
(01:03:09) Personal & Social Identity, Tools: Curiosity, Purpose & Dementia Risk
(01:11:58) Addiction, Dopamine; Social Media & Dopamine "Hits"?
(01:18:36) Sponsor: Function
(01:20:13) Dopamine, Parkinson's Disease; Other Roles of Dopamine
(01:26:59) Life Purpose, Culture; Reflection, Weighing Decisions
(01:34:21) Internal & External Attention
(01:39:59) Internal Chatter, Distraction; Working Memory, Stimulants, Nicotine
(01:48:54) ADHD, Diagnosis; Attention & Motivation
(01:54:34) Goal Planning & Perseverance
(01:59:44) Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Apathy, Tools: Dementia Risk Factors
(02:06:55) Neurodegenerative Disease & Emerging Treatments
(02:10:59) Can You Train Attention?, Tool: Reduce Distraction
(02:15:14) Enrichment, Art
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