How to BREAK Habits - Neuroscientist Explains Effective Tool - Andrew Huberman Lab

Thank you so much for clipping this ❤

Thank you so much Dr. Huberman. You are a gem 💎

So happy this is without the distracting shitty "inspirational" music.

Hmmm, I have my doubts this will work, but I plan to try it

Our angel.

This is true can confirm

Thank god we are getting some Interracial couples where the woman is black and the male is white, in the random background images. Just saying.

For me, i had to remove everything. No t.v. no phone no music no meat no dairy no energy drinks.... sometimes no food at all..... cold/hot showers back and forth during it. I drink a lot of herbal tea. Ill do this for about 2 or 3 days at a time right now.

Im definately in a healing phase.

Technically i wasnt even supposed to write this in the comment section... writing in comment section is me looking for some sort of outside reckognition. And its addictive. And right now. Poisonous to me sometimes. I end up in arguements. But i say that so people can see what im going through in this. The purpose of taking away alllllllll stimulus.. is so i can become more used to having NOTHING, with no expectation of relief. Finally free of everything. And i realize that if i dont eat meat for say a month..... wouldnt i enjoy it way more at the end of the month? Because right now i enjoy NOTHING, because any time i want something i grt up and go get it, im getting bored with this routine.. if i take a hot shower everyday but turn it to cold then back to hot then back to cold .... wouldnt i be more grateful for my warm showers? I actually started to like the cold shower, and turning it back hot was almost annoying. But i knew to do it, because the goal is to "attatch to nothing...." i realized i had a fear of letting go of things.... not physical things.... just everything and anything. So my solution was to take them all away.

I also learned the past is always in FRONT of me 👀..... the future is inside. 👁

I dunno, not much going on here except alot of talk. I stil think the best way of taking controll of yourself is via meditation, and stillness meditation specifically, as it takes you straight into your core self, which is pure awareness and joyfullness. From that point its easier to make choices of whats serving you and whats not. Trying to look from the outside in, is like putting the proverbial cart in front of the horse. All of the dopamine and reflective analysis help to understand whats happening on a scientific leve,l but dont take you to your core SELF

Just wondering.. are you gay?

This is great information about what to do. I'll try it and see if it works. Whats less clear to me is WHY it works. What does 'create an open loop' mean exactly. And why does attaching a bad habit to a good habit break the bad habit? My first instinct is that the technique he suggests, would just reinforce the bad habit since something positive(presumably you at least feel proud of yourself after performing a good habit) sits at the end of a sequence that always starts with that bad habit...Said a different way: if youre trying to break A to B, why does tacking on B to C not just mean the brain eventually does the complete A to B to C sequence as a habit?

That girl eating though...

this matches with law of karma too do good deeds to cut of the bad deeds

Love it when you are both scientific and “new agey.” 😊

Would this approach be effective with overcoming an addiction?

Fasting is a great tool

so just need objective psychological self observation. most can’t detach from the conditioned mind and there own subjective ideas and judgements of what is “good” and “bad”. unless you can be brutally honest with yourself you won’t get far!

thanks for the explanation on how this works.

A long story was made longer.

Last October I couldn't imagine a day without drinking... fast forward to today, I haven't had a drink in MONTHS!

It makes such sense. As a chain smoker, I am not interested in finishing the current cigarette (infact, I hate smoking it) but thinking about the next one gives a dopamine hit. And replacing this second cigarette with a positive reinforcement can work in not thinking of the first cigarette at all!

It takes 2 weeks to form a habit and twice as long to break it...

I quit smoking and drinking cold turkey. Imo that's the best way. But detox sucks for about a week

The Plan: Every time I realize I picked up my phone for no reason I will do 10 air squats.

Everyone growing up playing basketball in the inner city has done the rubber band trick when you do something bad while playing basketball

This is nonsense, depression is a direct correlation to the degree of your happiness, for instance, if I want money, a wife, etc and don’t get it then I feel depressed, then the booze or the whatever helps me cope (to feel better) Therefore the person who does not chase anything nor relies on happiness, and he doesn’t compare, if this man works to the level of his energy he will be free! and within this freedom there is nothing to get and because he is living and working to the level of his energy he will excel naturally. Now, there is no win or lose here, it’s living life so if the girl comes cool, if not cool, there are no dreams, just living life as it comes and therefore nothing to be sore about.

In the words of that Jordaan philopher felow, "it isn't about quitting <insert habit here>. Its about having a more meaningful life"

Thus, it comes down to habit replacement IMO. if you starve the bad habit without replacing it with a good one, then you create a vacuum that will inevitably be filled with a relapse

this is for sure a wonderful video, thanks for sharing. subbed ! a fellow creator

boy you like to talk!!

This makes so much sense

I've realised that I intuitively do this! Not for a while and I'll be sure to get back to it now. It feels like you're shaking off the bad habit...

thank you

And thanks to BryanandPaul

Been doing this for years based on B - M A P works a treat and is quite wierd cause the replacement can be just about anything based on my experience

Very cool!

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:

"Be conscious of Allah wherever you are. Follow the bad deed with a good one to erase it, and engage others with beautiful character."

this is SO helpful for people with skin picking / excoriation disorder! thank you!

I have sugar addiction pls tell how to change any habits when reward are not same

Designing your environment so the cue/trigger for the hahit becomes invisible & punishing yourself for doing it are one of the most powerfull things IMO

i wanna stop bighting my nails..........!!!!!!!!!🙏🙏🙏😄

Really interesting perspective.

Just a whole bunch of BS. He is talking nonsense, using only difficult jargon to sound smart.

So what this is basically saying is if you mess up don’t be harsh on yourself instead be positive.

Often you feel so disappointed with yourself if you start the habit again, ie nail biting, so if you stop and then do something good, it counter acts the guilt etc and then perhaps you can start again and then hopefully the habit weakens

Use psychedelics

Fascinating vid. Is there one on mapping the replacement habit / skipping the bad one?

Anyway, I think I’ll start with going for a quick run around the block after every tub of ice cream ;)

So every time I pick up the phone and after few minutes I consciously aware of that behavior (oh shit here we go again)
I do a 5 push ups and then WHAT?
Either am gonna regret that shit if I use the phone I need to do push up OR
come on its push up time so use the phone for half an hour

the audio content is good, but the video obviously have some far left liberal indoctrination subliminal embedded, you can almost see what it looks an lgtbqp people on the background and obviously that is not a desirable habit at all.