Andrew Huberman· PhD
So shaping the narrative around a life event becomes critically important I think for mental health and how you frame issues. And so if you think of the concept of like event centrality, it's like how central is an event going to be to my life and what story am I going to tell around it? Right? So people who tend to take like something bad that happened in their life and they take that in as the central component of their personality tend to have worse mental health. Whereas people who take it and say hey this thing happened but what can I learn from it? How can I grow from it? What might happen in the future? Yes, this sucks hard right now but where might it take me in the past or in the future? And those two people are going to have completely different trajectories. So the narrative you tell yourself becomes really important.