Andrew Huberman· PhD
So one of the things that I found really fascinating about working with people in recovery was how telling the truth, even about the merest detail of their lives, was central to their recovery. It's not even just not lying about using drugs. I have to not lie about anything. I can't lie about why I was late to work this morning, which we all do. "Oh, I hit traffic." No, I didn't hit traffic, I wanted to spend two more minutes reading the paper and drinking my coffee, right? So, people with addiction will get into the lying habit where they're lying about random stuff because they're sort of in the habit of lying. And how recovery is really about telling the truth. And there's really interesting neuroscience behind it that suggests that when we tell the truth, we actually potentially strengthen our prefrontal cortical circuits and their connections to our limbic brain and our reward brain.