Andrew Huberman· PhD
it sounds like what you did was have a really nice emotion regulation strategy of like you could kind of fill your head with something so that you can work on the physical stuff but it didn't impede your experience of the physical stuff the way you described it shows that you were there you were present when you were doing it I think the problem was is when it impedes our presence doing it and I think it kind of depends on activity we're doing right um you know take driving probably some of you who are listening right now or sitting in your car as you're driving doing this other interesting motoric activity and that's one where it's like you're not missing out on that much on the drive by like listening to us it's probably a positive kind of experience that you're having learning something and so on but you know you wouldn't want to listen to podcasts in some physical situations right um we can kind of come you wouldn't you know if you're were ballroom dancing for example you wouldn't want to necessarily be listening to a podcast then right um you know if you're really experiencing art and sort of engaging with art in an art gallery you wouldn't want to also be listening to a podcast at the same time and so I think the thing to think is are you listening to this in a way that you're missing something in the real world that your presence of it would matter make you feel really good um or are you kind of just like you know killing some other free time and maybe using this as a nice emotion regulation strategy to stop what would otherwise be a really ruminative drive