Andrew Huberman· PhD
now I did this thing wasn't good science but — so the first group that we took there was the reminiscent group group this was a group where they were going to reminisce for that week so they always knew now was now and then was then right that was a a control group we get to the retreat and um I'm in this van oh people you know people need to understand the study was uh back before Google before we had the internet you know so when I am playing music in the van going to the event music from the past this was a major thing to find this now it takes two minutes you ask Chad lately you know give me the 10 best songs back uh 20 years ago at any rate um so I'm on the uh on the bus with them music playing from the past playing we get very close to the retreat and all of a sudden I realize that not I was sexist at the time oblivious um that uh none of my male graduate students were with me that meant I had seven old men and at least seven heavy suitcases there was no way that I was going to carry their suitcases upstairs so — unplanned for we get off the bus and I say you're in charge of your own suitcase I don't care if you move it an inch at a time to get it to your room or you unpack it here a shirt at a time however you want to do it now imagine nothing else the difference between somebody who's cuddled who's not even thought to be able to respond to a question you know where the daughter or son would answer for them to now they're in charge of their whole lives and um that meant that even the comparison group was going to do well which they did just not quite as well as the other group and for me that was fine because as you mentioned before my work is all about possibility I'm not interested in describing what is I'm interested in seeing what may be you know so — if I got um one monkey to say hey Ellen that's nonsense that would be fine if we couldn't train the rest of them you know but it would lead us to different views of language I love this approach to science of seeing what may be