Andrew Huberman· PhD
And I think if we can eliminate those bad rest breaks and substitute in the good nature rest breaks, people are just going to be much healthier cognitively, physically, you know socially.
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And I think if we can eliminate those bad rest breaks and substitute in the good nature rest breaks, people are just going to be much healthier cognitively, physically, you know socially.
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And I think taking breaks in nature actually allows us to do more hard things. That's, you know, just like you can't lift weights continuously all day long, every day. You got to rest. You and you got to take good rest. And I think the nature breaks are the good mental rest which is going to allow you then to later do the heavy cognitive work better.