Andrew Huberman· PhD
But I have to first mentalize about me before I mentalize about you. A way of putting this would be, if I'm thinking about you before I'm thinking about me, I'm on a fool's errand. You have to start with the self.
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But I have to first mentalize about me before I mentalize about you. A way of putting this would be, if I'm thinking about you before I'm thinking about me, I'm on a fool's errand. You have to start with the self.
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And then ultimately I'm setting the we right, the magical bridge of us. I'm setting that up for success too. And that's how you see in these levels of emergence, that if you understand everything about you and understand everything about me, and let's say a person understands we have a generative drive, you don't really know what our relationship is going to be like, but you think, I bet it's going to be a good one, right? And then what would we then contribute, s ay, to a broader culture? So a group of people, maybe there's 10 people, a bunch of friends getting together, we would contribute goodness at that next level, which is then the culture o f the larger group.