Andrew Huberman· PhD
we're very rarely confronted with those kinds of physical stressors these days it's often social stressors but a lot of social stressers are a threat of social death right like a ninth grader coming into high school getting bullied by all their friends and are excluded because the eth their friends in eighth grade now treat you like you don't exist right the threat of social death is pretty bad right or you're a new legal associate and you've filed your first brief and all the partners are like this is garbage we're not going to send it to the client right like all of a sudden you're on trial socially in front of these people who could cut you loose at any time that's a very vibrant social stressor that evokes the same kind of physiological response as we suppose a physical one would right