Andrew Huberman· PhD
take the habits for which you know there's the highest degree of limbic friction. They are the hardest for you to engage in. they require the most activation energy and put those in this zero to eight hours after waking.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
take the habits for which you know there's the highest degree of limbic friction. They are the hardest for you to engage in. they require the most activation energy and put those in this zero to eight hours after waking.
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What you're doing is you're creating task bracketing. You're making it such that your nervous system will predict when you are going to lean in against limbic friction in order to perform particular types of habits.
In that first phase, your whole system is action and focus oriented. And we know that when you are action and focus oriented and because of the neurochemicals that are naturally released into your brain and body that you will be more likely to overcome any limbic friction that stands in the way of performing particular habits.