Here are 10 key points summarizing the discussion: 1. Emotions emerge from overall brain-body states, not distinct entities. The brain makes guesses to reduce uncertainty and plan actions. 2. "Affect" refers to general feelings tied to the body budget. Managing affect through sleep, nutrition, etc. helps regulate emotions. 3. There are no universal facial expressions for specific emotions. We make inferences about others' emotions from movements in context. 4. Emotion concepts and words summarize past experiences into categories to guide future actions. 5. More nuanced emotion vocabulary allows us to construct finer-grained categories and actions. 6. Other languages often have emotion words that English lacks. Learning these expands our emotional granularity. 7. Relationships profoundly shape emotions through social synchrony and acts of kindness that provide "savings" in the body budget. 8. Toxic relationships "tax" us. Choosing partners wisely is foundational for mental health. 9. Depression is like a "bankrupt" body budget. Physical factors like sleep, nutrition, and exercise are crucial for affect. 10. Focusing attention on nuances of physical sensations, rather than emotion labels, can provide wisdom to guide different actions. --------------------------- Here are some specific actions you can take for each of the key points: 1. **Emotions emerge from overall brain-body states, not distinct entities.** To better understand your emotions, pay attention to your physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions as a whole. How are they interconnected? How do they change over time? 2. **"Affect" refers to general feelings tied to the body budget. Managing affect through sleep, nutrition, etc. helps regulate emotions.** Make sure to get enough sleep, eat a nutritious diet, and exercise regularly. These things will help to regulate your body budget and improve your overall affect. 3. **There are no universal facial expressions for specific emotions. We make inferences about others' emotions from movements in context.** When you are trying to understand someone else's emotions, pay attention to their body language and facial expressions. Consider the context of the situation as well. What is the person saying? What is happening around them? 4. **Emotion concepts and words summarize past experiences into categories to guide future actions.** Think about the different emotions you have experienced in your life. What are the common themes? How have these experiences shaped your behavior? 5. **More nuanced emotion vocabulary allows us to construct finer-grained categories and actions.** Learn new words to describe your emotions. This will help you to better understand and manage your own emotional experience. 6. **Other languages often have emotion words that English lacks. Learning these expands our emotional granularity.** If you are interested in learning a new language, pay attention to the emotion words that it has. How are they different from the emotion words in English? 7. **Relationships profoundly shape emotions through social synchrony and acts of kindness that provide "savings" in the body budget.** Spend time with people who make you feel good. Be kind to others and offer your support. Social connection is essential for emotional well-being. 8. **Toxic relationships "tax" us. Choosing partners wisely is foundational for mental health.** Avoid relationships that are draining or abusive. Choose partners who are supportive and caring. 9. **Depression is like a "bankrupt" body budget. Physical factors like sleep, nutrition, and exercise are crucial for affect.** If you are struggling with depression, make sure to get enough sleep, eat a nutritious diet, and exercise regularly. These things will help to improve your body budget and mood. 10. **Focusing attention on nuances of physical sensations, rather than emotion labels, can provide wisdom to guide different actions.** When you are feeling overwhelmed by emotions, try to focus on your physical sensations. What are you feeling in your body? What does your body need? It is important to note that these are just suggestions. The best way to improve your life is to experiment and find what works best for you. Be patient and kind to yourself along the way.

Such a great conversation. Lisa is amazing! ❤

Andrew is teaching people how to be humble by example. ❤

What i like about this podcast : she has studied so much about her subject, she basically points out what's wrong with stuff we commonly know and goes a level deeper and explains it properly... ( It was harder for me personally to visualise what is stress but after she explained what cortisol is, i was able to visualise it properly)

I so appreciate your humility, Dr. Huberman. We need more of that in the world.

She's incredibly intelligent. One of my favorite episodes so far because of the quote , "Western stereotype enshrined as scientific fact". I am a non native English speaker, and a child of immigrants so listening to her talk about how other culture have words to describe emotions and how western science doesn't recognize that is just great to hear. I have so many words to describe how I'm specifically feeling that isn't in relation to the limiting words of English.

The awkward moments, the scientist created made my brain go blank, and I learned nothing I just felt the tension. Much love and respect from Montreal , Canada 🍁🙏🏻💖🍀

I am so glad this conversation took place, and that Andrew held the space for it to develop into what it did gracefully, (with humility). We need more people like Lisa to help us properly progress psychology/ physiological/ mental health studies/ field forward, in the right direction. Thank you, both!

Glad to be a fan of this podcast since the first episode.

"Backpfeifengesicht" is a German word for "a face badly in need of a fist". Personal favourite is "Waldeinsamkeit" which is the "spiritual and connective solace found in being alone in the woods"

“Part of being emotionally intelligent is knowing when not to construct an emotion!”. 💣 ❤

I´m still struggling to process all that I didn't like about this conversation. The most meaningful message form this episode is you incredible self control and character. Congrats for being able to navigate it!

I am an early intervention speech therapist. I have been endorsing that parents label/ñame emotions for their children for the very reasons that Dr. Feldman states. However, my head is now spinning with regard to the new information I am learning about whether emotional states are genetically determined, cultural influences etc. LOVE THIS TOPIC and now I have a new and long list of books to buy, highlight and make notes in, then incorporate this information into my practice and what I tell my graduate clinicians. Also: comments about the language differences is spot on. I speak Spanish and there are many words used to describe emotions that are not available in English Thank you so much!

This is particularly valuable for neurodivergent people. People with ASD, like myself, often struggle with understanding the emotions of others as well as our own, which leads to issues with expression, communication, and general connection with other people. Tools like your podcast are an immense help. Thanks, professor!

This lady is excellent. SSRI's have been a lifesaver for me for over 25 years. They continue to work beautifully for me. Please be careful in your excitement to not overlook how profoundly they can continue to change lives and turn people from dead husks into vibrant living productive members of society who not only thrive externally put feel the sunshine in their hearts, souls, and minds that was desperately missing for so very , very long.

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett must be protected at all costs

This episode was tremendously interesting and so helpful to me as someone who struggles with my own emotional regulation and properly identifying facial expressions in other people. It’s something with which I’ve struggled my entire life, and educational resources such as this podcast, and specifically this episode, are invaluable tools for self improvement. Thank you for providing this.

I have been on a journey of self healing and this podcast has been a great influence on my emotional and physical being.

This is such a good episode. I love how Lisa said how different cultures or languages can really define an emotion well. I am half Salvadoran and half Mexican and there are words from both cultures that I can’t translate to the fullest in English. The emotion or sentiments behind those words, I find, are not in the English language. Also, I love how vulnerable Andrew was in saying he felt lonely after spending time with his sister in New York. I get that feeling after spending time with my immediate family that are from outta state. This is something I have said since I was a kid, that my home are my people it’s not a place. So when they have to go or I have to leave after a visit I experience some loneliness as they take a part of me with them. Kinda like being homesick for them. This is just my experience, but I find it hard to even explain now. Also, the sense that this time with my loved ones is fleeting gets to me too, but that is a whole different rabbit trail.

This woman is BRILLIANT!!!!! I want to take her home. Thank you for this amazing information, Dr. Huberman.✊

How Emotions are Made by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is one of my favorite books of all time. I couldn’t get enough of her insight so I also read 7 and a Half Lessons about the Brain, which was so eye opening yet so elegantly concise. I’ve never been more excited for a Huberman episode until this one! (Lex Fridman’s interview with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is also amazing, go check it out ☺️)

Great interview, tons to learn. Dr. Barrett is such a knowledgeable woman, I'm impressed with how she delivers powerful insights that, if put into practice,can change a LOT, not only individually, but in society.

Lisa and Andrew are both extraordinary. I have always found Andrew very endearing but it has reached a whole new level watching his interaction, facial expressions, etc… in this interview🙂

This is the best episode of this podcast, showing your true curiosity and Dr. Feldman Barrett's brilliance. I will be listening multiple times.

Amazing episode! I think the German word is "Backpfeifengesicht"... In Portuguese, we have the word "saudade," which refers to a loving sad feeling of emptiness and absence, missing someone, a place, or a situation we have experienced.

She’s a tough woman. She’s intelligent and so belligerent…..I’m sacred to talking to her. Huberman is a hero for talking to her on our behalf. Salute

The question "Is language sufficient to communicate emotion" was a really great question Andrew! It's something I've been thinking about for a while

This is probably the most life-changing episodes for me. Just by knowing this sensory-categorization-emotion-action mechansim allows me to generate so many more options in every day life. It also provides a strong foundation for me to understand all other concepts like the growth mindset and the humam learning process. In the past few days I have been dwelling on the every day application of it and using testing them. It already has changed some basic patterns that, I, for the past 39 years of my life, believed were unchangeable. It is like microscope that helps you see the working of some already very useful tools. I want to thank, from the bottom of my heart, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and, of course, Dr. Andrew Huberman, for their love of science and strong compassion for people who suffer.

What was missing was the trauma that lives in the body ("issues park themselves in our tissues") and memories that can't be tapped through the intellect. But with her and Gabor Mate on a panel - that would be a fire truth bomb!

I’ve read her book ‘How Emotions Are Made’ and this podcast is making what I learned from the book even more clear and understandable. Another phenomenal episode!

The healthiest battle of the egos I’ve ever seen… this is how you have a debate/discussion/conversation

"everything starts with a good night sleep". "Uncertainty is very costly". what a great session !

I love Lisa's perspective on intentionally experiencing the pain of the after-effects of her back surgery. I regularly avoid taking pain killers when I have muscle main, or minor injuries. As I've gotten older and matured, I prescribed to the fact I need to listen to my body. My logic is if I'm cancelling out the pain, I can't let my body "deal" appropriately? Especially so because I'm nursing some chronic illnesses - anything that's being masked is something that isn't being noticed.

Thank you, Andrew Huberman and anyone who may help this mans vision. 🎉🎉🎉 Pinnacle of humanity

Started this while having dinner and ended watching the whole thing. Fascinating stuff.

Dr Barret is a genius.

As someone who feels they must explain their facial expressions ad nauseam, this episode was extremely helpful in understanding what others might perceive. Another wonderful episode. thnk you.

42:34 _"Maybe feeling good is in great part feeling rested and not being in physical pain." I think this extract, the way it's framed, is universal and unbelievably eye opening ; I've been asking to myself the same question for months since I've discovered the podcast. I know intuitively think that when I ''feel bad'' is really when I'm not well rest d and/or pain ; Except when I've just lived through an explosive moment - lately for exemple I nearly died in a fire, that made me ''feel bad''.

My name is Astrid and I’m a podcast addict;) This is pure genius deep insight and I loved the interactions and energy between Dr Lisa and Huberman

That was absolutely amazing. I allowed myself to enjoy the whole conversation without stopping, but now I need to listen to that again at least a few more times with note-taking. It was a wealth of information. Thank you.

I needed this episode so much. While I'm capable of displaying a wide range of facial expressions there are many times where people fail to read how I'm feeling because my outward expression doesn't match my inward feeling due ro either masking or hyper awareness. People in my experience react so much to facial expressions, word choice etc and I'm aware I often blunt my outward expressions to create less of a reaction in people around me. It has a lot to do with why socialization can often be so exhausting with people especially when I can't let my guard down and let my authentic side show freely. What she said around an hour in was extremely meaningful to me because I often experience sensations and thought patterns that tried to guide my body towards reactions that I know are in response to similar situations in the past and it's very frustrating that even when I can think rationally and tell myself everything is okay my body It's still firing warning signals that can make me extremely sensitive until my nervous system settles down.

I love Dr. Feldman-Barrett’s work so much! I own and have read both her books, and listened to so many of her talks and podcasts. SO glad you got her on! People, go get her books, they are very good and will almost assuredly update your brain!

Gracias a ambos por el esfuerzo y la calidad de este valioso ejercicio intelectual. Tendrá grandes beneficios en la calidad de vida de los oyentes. Felicitaciones

Thank you! So interesting!! Sidenote: The ACE study shows clearly that the body keeps the score.

She's my second favorite neuroscientist next to you! I saw her on Lex's podcast and I'm so happy she's now on yours as well. Thank you for work that you both do!

For a person with no mentor to look upto, you fill in ! Thank you Dr. Huberman, forever indebted to you.

Thank you Professor Huberman & Dr. Barrett ❤

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for bringing us this perspective, these lessons, this experience. I wish we were taught these things in school and much earlier in life. Its amazing to me that we just don't know how we work, and the degree to which we do isn't mainstream enough. I'm almost tempted to design something like a board game featuring the brain as a setting, the resources being perhaps nutrients, and the play pattern focused on optimizing those resources around changing conditions. I've had Dr.Felman's book on my to read list for a little while, and am now very eager to read it. Thanks for the inspiration.

I'm just so fascinated with every single episode of this podcast 🙌 Dr. Andrew, you're doing an amazing job sharing all this georgeos information for the general public that is interested in science and in all the possible ways that one can improve their lives... Thank you so much for every single amazing guest you bring to the podcast. This episode particularly was GREAT ✨💯

Damn….this was soooo good. Love Dr. Huberman. Truly a gift of our time. Dude is humble, intelligent, and changing lives for the better. In light of all the chaos around the world, it’s nice to have an outlet where we can hear people like him interview and discuss such important topics.

I never imagined emotions have such vast neurological underpinnings….very thought-provoking…kudos to you both 🙌🏾

Emotions are like colors. You have your basic colors then you mix them together and it makes different colors. So there are all those emotional combinations by mixing emotions together in quality but also quantity. The number of different amounts of emotions it’s almost infinite.

Congratulations on your interview on the today show! I have absolutely loved your podcast for the last year! I’m so glad to have found you! Thank you for the amazing work you do in the world!❤

As a fencing coach, a parent and someone raised by an old-school German father, this conversation was immensely helpful! Thank you to both of you!!!

So good I have gone to pick up Dr Barrett’s books. This isn’t just an informative episode, it’s an amazing lesson.

I read Lisa's book How Emotions Are made a few years ago! So awesome to see a podcast with her. Gave me goosebumps to hear her speak!

I have to agree she is a freaking pioneer… Lisa’s story is inspiring and teach us what is really like to be curious, true to yourself and your beliefs, and go for it… 💪🏽🧠💜. Plus she freaking brilliant

so appreciate getting this second interview with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett. I've learned new things this time around and will be watching it again to catch some of the topics that were a bit complex for me.

@hubermanlab I love your podcast and look forward to a new episode every week. Would like to suggest Caroline M. Myss as a guest. She is the author of Anatomy of Spirit. That again for your work. Truly amazing ❤️

Firstly, I would like to say I really enjoy listening to all of your podcasts and I am very thankful to you for sharing your knowledge Andrew. I definitely appreciate this particular podcast and the purpose of it especially if it helps us to understand and relate to “…others and the world in richer, more adaptive ways.” However, if I could share a great realization from my knowledge and experience that I think would greatly compliment the understanding of emotions and perhaps help give others a deeper understanding of our emotional states and reactivity to our outside environment. What I am talking about here is what I call the “Observer Mind.” I think of it as an evolutionary state of being that has been continually progressing within the human race. I believe there is no greater asset to human beings than gaining the ability to observe oneself. Keeping in mind, that there are varying degrees of self-observation. This Observer state gives us the capability to step outside of our programmed mind/memories in order to enable us to view our environment from a new, much higher perspective. When we gain the ability to move outside of our conditioning, we no longer see things from a subjective view but rather a higher, fresher perspective. There is no longer any ‘influence’ from the past driving our emotions and decisions in our present. When we achieve this level of awareness, we become freer from the constraints of our past wounds and/or acquired subpersonalities that no longer serve us. We become less reactive as a means of self-defense or preservation. This also enables us to look at our emotional states without denial. We then can respond more efficiently and effectively to each other and our environment. Ultimately, this leads to greater peace and harmony within ourselves and the world at large. Difficult to explain fully in the comment section. 😀

Prayer allows us to support and help each others nervous system through love care and minimal judgment. Love this podcast. Thank you Doc Huberman!

Wow, this is very eye opening for me as someone with emotional dysregulation problems. All this information is really shedding a new light on what emotions really are for me. Thank you Andrew Huberman (and his team) and Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett!

This one is challenging me in so many ways! My first undergrad psychology course was is 1994, so I’m familiar with the facial pictures as they supposedly correlated to emotions. I work with children on a daily basis, helping them with trauma and how it impacts behavior, regulating their emotions (if that’s even the correct term anymore), social-emotional learning, etc., in conjunction with trying to teach them the basics in education (reading, writing, math, etc). So much is observation and me trying to “read” a situation or behavior so that I can assist them in regulation before they “flip their lid” (amygdala is triggered). This episode left me conflicted on what I’ve been taught and what I witness daily, in regards to emotions. It does take time being around a child before I learn their “tells”, but their facial expressions do help me to recognize when they are feeling certain emotions. Or at least check in with them about how they’re feeling. As a professor, I would assume you’ve looked out at a room of blank stares, and realized that you lost your audience and need to revisit certain concepts. Is that now faulty assumption? (As a side note, “pizza” does have two syllables but more than two phonemes).

Her work has been instrumental in me working through and changing my experience of "panic disorder" and even just everyday stress. Understanding that if I feel "stress" or "panic" it's because I'm creating that energy and motor plans (urges) in my body and mind about what I might do next based on what I think is happening now has allowed me to focus on changing what I'm doing and predicitng rather than what I'm feeling, which has changed everything. Thank you Dr. Feldman Barrett and Dr. Huberman for everything you do!

i love the way dr.lisa explain everything through the neuroscientific perspective it's make my mind so clear and more understand how my body and mind are actually work. thanks to you both. love this video.

My mind is 💡up!! I am a premium subscriber and this has been the most intellectually satisfying episode! My mind is delightfully buzzing with curiosity for more of LFB books and her wisdom! And you both delivered the info in such a fluid synchronous manner! You guys are kindred spirits!Thank you! 🙏🏻

Thank you for the consistency and true up to date information on the neuroscience. You made working out and staying healthy so much easier and more fulfilling knowing how it all correlates with our brain. You have really changed my outlook and gave me a passion to pursue a greater understanding. Keep up the great work

This is a great discussion. I am trained clinician in psychiatry. I struggled to understand emotion and my training didn’t help clarify. This is further complicated by my culture (grew up in an East African and Islamic tradition). In my training, I was taught to think of affect as observable feelings of others and mood, on the other hand is subjective report of a person. This is easier said than done, based on years of experience. Now, from this talk I learned that affect and mood are one in the same; that emotion is highly variable and depending on culture and our own interpretation can change. Loveee this!!! Thank you!

Would Love to see Dr. Feldman back for another episode. This podcast brought me so many realisations and has been by far the most helpful and actionable. Thank you for all that you do.

I haven't heard a more inspiring conversation in a long long time. Thank you

Lisa Feldman barret is a luminary of our times

This was very interesting the best video so far. Enjoyed finally hearing someone honest enough to call the BS what it is

I am since long retired.Your podcasts and discussions give me unmeasurable pleasure as I adjust to my new state of health. Long walks in the woods are but a memory. I 2:39:03 listen and try understand even subjects which are away from my interest but widen my horizons and keep me in touch with current sience results.

I am so glad to be listening to this conversation. Body language and emotions relation in that rudimentary way never made sense to me and finally someone is scientifically explaining it!!!

Would love to hear a podcast on the theory of generational trauma 😁

This was a very interesting and insightful video. I’m a practicing DBT/ somatic therapist and there were certain things said I don’t agree with. From a DBT lens labeling emotions as good or bad are judgements and don’t capture a persons experience. Emotions have functions to communicate to ourselves and others. They are also used as motivators. Also I agree that the way people experience emotions are not black and white. Our environment really does shape the way we move through emotions. I’m very interested in reading her books to get a better understanding of her research and approach. Thank you again for such great content.

I would love an episode focused on how the culture and climate of scientists effects the studies that are conducted, and the interpretation of the results. Would be cool to see a panel of scientists on this!

Dr Lisa Feldman is a such an interesting researcher and convincing personality. Her description of our CNS is simply convincing and her tenderness (which first seems at odd with her rather sober description of our CNS) is even more. Thanks

I have to admit that I was about to stop about 30 minutes in, but I'm so glad I kept listening. Very enlightening episode and I will probably listen to this again.

The universal expression discussion hits home. I am from the Dominican Republic and came to rural Maryland and people at work kept saying that I was getting angry and that I was aggressive when I was feeling neutral and even nicer than most! I eventually realized it was how they interpreted my gestures. Back home we express everything more intensely. I started acting... using more neutral faces or slightly smiling... Started speaking in a slightly higher pitch... Boom! As I met more people, they seemed to like me and find me funny and even chill! This has significant repercussions for career outcomes - whether someone considers an Asian person not to be leadership material because they are inexpressive, or they isolate a black woman because they find her aggressive.

I find this to be a treasure trove! Keep going back to it. A wealth of information. To those saying she’s tough. IDK, and I don’t mind it because they are both clearly inspired to help humanity and give effective solutions to the problems that be! She is interesting, but I find myself pulled toward her not away because of her heart’s passion for helping others. Of course, we all know that is true of the amazing Dr.H.🙌🌱❤️

The implications for clinical practice is mind boggling. This is changes so much around our assumptions about emotions this psychotherapy and psychopharmacology treatments. Deep dive into the material. Thank goodness these scientists can now give accessible, under stable applicable research and info to the general public. Free! Amazing time for neuroscience.

In my opinion the body and emotions are definitely linked. Curling over definitely is associated with depression for me, and standing with strong posture definitely does provide feelings of empowerment. I don’t think anybody said that you can change one thing and completely change all of your emotions. The idea is that there are both internal and external things that can be done to shift emotional states. Certainly it’s contextual and that’s fine, but for the purpose of shifting emotion or changing state, standing tall often WILL change your emotions.

Convenient timing, I have just started in depth studies of psychosomatic illnesses, so these tie perfectly together. It would be interesting to see a podcast from you featuring such things as mind-causing physical impairments.

What a GREAT episode! It helped me to understand the WHY of emotions from a physiological standpoint. Thanks Andrew and thanks Dr. Lisa Feldman!

Love u both! You can't even imagine how much your work has inspired me in mine! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing what you do best... -being true to yourselves!

Since I discover your channel. I prefer watching this 2 hr podcast than watching a movie :) Thank you

Thank you for yet another high class science slice, Professor! Your drive and effort to keep this podcast's high quality are truly inspirational! We are so grateful for the kniwledge and time you share with us, viewers!

It's been a long time since I listened to this podcast with this much enthusiasm!!! ❤ Sorry, but many guests have so similar talking points, that feels like they are copying each other. Lisa is amazing, I think I grew a couple of neurons in the first hour 😅❤

You know what’s crazy.. I have OCD and a lot of people with ocd tend to confuse certain emotions etc etc.. and become highly fixated on what they mean about them.. for instance myself.. I was working for fed ex at the time.. I was on a route and making a delivery to a business I’ve gone to almost every other day for about 5 months being that it was a new up and running business so deliveries were being made very often. So on this one particular day.. I had about 50 boxes to drop off and there was this guy and this lady helping me, great. As I was looking through the boxes to hand to them.. I stopped for about a second and was either change the song on my phone or either a video on my phone.. I tend to listen to a lot of podcast well working.. I was in a bit of a stressed.. but not in a bad mood.. I just hate delivering a lot of boxes especially in the summer when it’s really hot and this situation happened to be in the summer so my mood wasn’t the BEST but also was not in a bad mood either. So in the moment well on my phone another guy walks out to help up, mind you I’ve seen this guy many times and said wassup to many times no problem all good and go about my business but in almost a reflex happened so fast this rush hit me in my chest.. causing an involuntary smile to kick in.. threw me off almost instantly because I’m like wth was that? I quickly obsess over it and become fixated. I tried to put 2 and 2 together.. because I was like he did almost catch me off guard because I was on my phone and i looked up for like a split second.. I couldn’t understand what happened, because this involuntary smile felt very uncontrollable and I was just tryna figure out wtf was going on.. never had this ever happen 27 years of my life up until that one day and then it became an on going thing specifically around men but right before this happened. This NEVER happened so it’s very odd that this keeps happening to me I wonder if it’s because I response negatively to it each time and my brain just keeps sending it idk I sometimes feel very lost and confused it’s been about 11 months and happens everyday.. any help would be great . Let me not forget to mention months after this I was venting to my girlfriend and I was in tears because I told her idk what’s happening to me idk why this keeps happening it never did before and it just happens all the time and I can’t control it. Literally in tears and while I’m crying that same rush hit me and I was just like wtf.. I’m literally crying right now. As I was telling her that I’m feeling the same thing .. she literally says you’re not smiling at all though.. although it really felt like I was even if it was a bit she told me I wasn’t at all.. so it’s just very confusing on what’s going on honestly.

Everything in my work as a neuro programming specialist points to her being 100% right. The brain is absolutely a guessing machine, and you see this at work through all muscular systems/sequencing and how those sequences change post injury/post trauma/ or with enough repeated stimulus. Fascinating interview. The answer likely is the brain doesn't know what the right answer is, but the outcome is more important than perfect efficiency. This can, in my opinion, be 100% proven through how the brain deals with trauma, as well as how it deals with physical injury.

I loved her book. Was the first one I felt could explain the brain to a regular person. I am a father of a 1 year old and I have found a few hints here and there about what is important to help a child’s brain to develop well. It would be great if you could do an episode on this topic.

What a great conversation. She keeps the conversation understandable. I love how she talks about the brain and its relationships with emotions.

"i wrote that book for her" Thank you Lisa, Thank you Lisa's Daughter, Thank you Huberman. This brings a lot of mental organization and helps me understand whole new dimensions of things that have always been there, but being able to translate functions to words like this is as important as milk for a new born.

Great discussion, love how Andrew and Lisa challenge each other and deliver great information to ponder. I think when great scientists collaborate it is the best delivery of information ( I experience this joyful information emotionally even though Lisa says it’s really processed through the brain). Anyway, wish there had been a longer discussion on kindness but a 2.5 hour podcast is long so maybe another?❤

47:53 “ghee-gil” is the best feeling❣️Loved how colored and animated two highly cerebral academicians got over one ☝️ word from the Philippines 🇵🇭🫶Excellent episode 💯🙌

This could not come at a better time, or at least when I listened to it this week. My former wife and I are grappling with our 17-year-olds education. We had him in public, then private, nothing seemed to be working. He is now homeschooled and works full time 3 days a week for a large and very successful trade company. They love him. He's getting paid, doing school (although he needs more there) and getting lessons in life. I've been grappling with alcoholism, and he has been my biggest advocate for repair. This young man is amazing, and I bought in to everything this content had to offer. Hopefully more folks who question the path, consider a new. You hiring?

I am a Special Education teacher and I find the science presented in these episodes invaluable for my practice as a teacher. This episode, however, just left me a bit unmoored. While I can find ways to apply the concepts Dr. Feldman Barrett was positive about, those ideas that were refuted are very hard to get around. The idea that Emotional Intelligence is not useful flies in the face of my personal "anecdata," and puts in question much of what we do to try to help children deal with their emotions. I understand that Dr. Feldman Barrett is trying to explain the science and call into question thinking and practices that are not supported by data, but she also discounts a large body of psychological practice that are used daily with a great deal of success. Maybe what is really helping kids with neurodivergence is the relationship with a positive adult, but I can't help but feel (emotion) that I'm just whistling in the dark. I'd love to hear some episodes that deal with neurodivergence as well as how EQ actually works.

Freaking finally here🎉🎉🎉🎉. Andrew I have been waiting for this day since your early days in the podcast… when we were less than 100k subscribers. I actually requested Lisa several times 😅😅😅😅. I hope I was not too annoying 😅😅

When I'm writing code, I use a wine cork to bite down on so as to change the shape of my lips into a smile. The habit instantly makes me feel happier during my coding sessions. I read it in a book some time ago. Apparently, physical changes have an impact on your mental state. It's reigned true for me, so I thought I'd share. Ok I'm going back to listening to the podcast. 😀