KHC 046 - Andrew Huberman

I'll just go on record. I'm very comfortable saying it. I believe in God. I do. I think there are many things that science can explain; there are certain things science can't explain. But I'll even go a step further, which is that all the elements of science are entirely compatible with the idea of there being a God.

I think one of the most important things for everybody to be able to say to themselves, knowing they're being completely honest, is I can do hard things. If it gets tough, I know I can do it because I've done it.

People always probably ask you too, what does it take to get really good at something? It's like, about 10 years of reps, and then just keep going and going and going.

Doing things for money... If you approach life that way, you're going to be miserable, and you're probably also never going to have enough. If you do things because you love them and you do them in a principled way, I've never seen it fail. I've never seen it fail.

I absolutely pray. I absolutely love that... we can't control everything, we're not in as much control as we think we are, and that the magnificence of biology and the magnificence of nature is— It's impossible that for me to conceive how that could be come about any other way.

I think we are rarely thinking about the future as much as people claim, and I think it's rare that we are fully present. I think we tend to think about the past a lot.

The best life is to remember the past if you need to but to have the future pull you forward and to be present in each day. I really believe that the unit of the day is the functional unit to really anchor oneself to—the sunrise, the sunset, sleep at night...

The hardships, the losses, they make the good times way better. The sense of appreciation is so deep. And also, it shapes us; it makes us who we are. And I do think having a little bit of a of a pebble in your shoe, sometimes, can keep you working harder and really persevering.

I do believe that you can break things down into a sequence, well, then you can get better each piece, and each piece getting better will help you improve.

I pray out loud in the morning, sometimes again in the middle of the night if I wake up. And it's only recently that I've been doing this more often.

I think young people would be wise to figure out at least three things that they absolutely love doing—and hopefully one of those things can be your source of income in life.

The way you build confidence is by doing hard things, hard for you, like really challenging, failing.