Andrew Huberman· PhD
And I can either pick high energy and unpleasant, high energy and pleasant, low energy unpleasant or low energy pleasant.
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And I can either pick high energy and unpleasant, high energy and pleasant, low energy unpleasant or low energy pleasant.
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so we have you know horizontal we'll call that pleasantness and this is going back to something else that we talked about earlier it's called pleasantness not goodness or Badness it's in this moment am I feeling highly Pleasant or am I feeling unpleasant do I feel like approaching my day my colleagues do I feel like avoiding my colleagues do I feel safe and comfortable do I feel uncomfortable that's the xais and the way I like to think about it is that from the moment we wake up in the morning till the time we go to bed that is activated we just you know you wake up in the morning and you just you're all of a sudden have a thought process like yes I want to get out of bed no I want to pull the covers over my head on the Y AIS is energy or activation okay so vertical axis is energy the technical term is arousal or activation but I think energy is a better term and so it's either your highly energized or you're deactivated or low in energy that's mental energy it's physical energy it's like kind of like how much fuel you have and then we cross those two axes to create what we call in our work the mood meter and there are four quadrants we got high pleasant high energy yellow so think about emotions there happy excited elated ecstatic optimistic we got the green so that's low energy and pleasant still that's the calm content tranquil peaceful relaxed quadrant and then we have the unpleasant side and I'm going to repeat myself it's not the bad emotions or the negative emotions we're going to call them unpleasant because it's not generally Pleasant to be sad or down or disappointed or hopeless or feeling despair which is the blue or that low energy unpleasant and we got our red quadrant on the mood meter which we'll call the high energy highly unpleasant emotions which are feelings of anger and anxiety