Andrew Huberman· PhD
and even in the moment um that doing like simple strategies like uh breathing or having a you know a mantra that says like you know it's not what matters you know every little decision do is not what counts but it's the long run that helps to turn we've talked about arousal a lot here and that turns down arousal one of the things you think of arousal is doing when you keep talking about volume knobs it's like a volume volume volume knob for the stuff that's coming into your brain that could be signal or noise so it can turn up noise too so you could count as evidence toward the value of an option something that is not actually you know evidence and then you make the wrong decision so by turning down arousal slowing down you're relying more on evidence than than on noise