Andrew Huberman· PhD
Um mentally we need resistance and there's like so think about energy resistance brings us to think you know there's a philosophy of education that could be built around this. >> You need to you know the the art of education is finding the right amount of resistance to expose a child to right if there is a if the problem is too hard or you're too severe you you're going to crush them right you kill their their spirit. But if you don't apply any resistance there's no rules then the energy is like this and then they'll never learn. there needs to be like just the sweet spot, right? That's what great masters, great mentors are able to do. I think I I've started to see my role as a mentor for people in the lab, you know, like this a little bit. I see them as energetic processes. You know, they're transforming energy. They need the right amount of resistance and, you know, not too much. And it it brings me more compassion maybe for them as as energetic movements. And then I realize I'm more sensitive to the effect I have uh, you know, on them. But all of this movement and the Taichi, the exercise, you know, lifting and and resting is analogous to what the heart does. The way that the the the heart works is by contracting cy, right? And then by relaxing