2024-12-30
3 小时 51 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Dr.
Jordan Peterson.
Dr.
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, an author and one of the most influential public intellectuals of our time.
Today we discuss the human animal, what it means to be a human being at the level of psychology, at the level of neuroscience, and indeed at the level of expression of different personality types within us.
Most of us don't think about having different personalities.
However, as we discussed today, due to the activity of specific brain circuitries, including the hypothalamus, the prefrontal cortex and others, we each and all can adopt different states of mind that powerfully influence our emotions, our thoughts and our actions.
And in so doing, we are different people depending on those states of mind.
Today's discussion is both an intellectual one and a practical one.
You will learn where and how to place your thoughts.
You will learn the relationship between the call to adventure and responsibility.
And as Dr.
Peterson emphasizes in his new book, we who Wrestle with God, he emphasizes the use of story, in this case biblical stories, to understand oneself and to best guide one's actions towards the most positive and generative outcomes.
We discuss the self romantic relationships and commitments, the family, community and culture.
We also discuss the media, politics, cancel culture, things like social media and pornography, shifting masculine and feminine roles, and the innate human drive to create action at a distance, both in space and and in time.
Today's discussion is both intellectual and practical.
Dr.
Peterson emphasizes how to use different sources of story, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to understand and best guide one's decision making process.