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#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
Gratitude Is Not a Hack
I hate the word hack because it's disrespectful to hackers who do a real thing. Biological mechanisms were designed to work and they were selected for to work under variable conditions. And things like gratitude allow you to tap into chemical resources. The fact that being grateful for something external to the event happens to release serotonin and have a certain soothing effect or dopamine and give you more epinephrine and let you go further is not a hack. That's actually what allowed the human machine to evolve to the point that it is now. You can't trick the system. But if you can identify or attach yourself to some larger goal or something that's deeply gratifying to you or place it in service to a
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