2025-09-04
38 分钟Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,
where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health,
physical health, and performance.
I'm Andrew Huberman,
and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
And now, my conversation with Dr. Aliyah Krum.
Well, great to have you here.
Great to be here.
Yeah.
Just to start off, you know, you've talked a lot and worked a lot on the science of mindsets.
Could you define for us what is a mindset and what sort of purpose does it serve?
We define mindsets as core beliefs or assumptions that we have about a domain or category of things that orient us to a particular set of expectations.
explanations and goals.
I can distill it down for you.
So mindsets are an assumption that you make about a domain.
So take stress, for example, the nature of stress.
What's your sort of core belief about that?
Do you view stress as enhancing good for you or do you view it as debilitating and bad for you?
those mindsets, those core beliefs, orient our thinking.
They change what we expect will happen to us when we're stressed,