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Recast: Understand How Your Brain Works with Dr. Andrew Huberman #338

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The Power of Two Points of Attention

The way we reset this capacity to set our attention in very deliberate ways is absolutely in sleep, both through neurochemical mechanisms and by a second mechanism, which is the tether becomes loose. We need periods of time every 24 hours where we're not setting our attention to anything. In sleep, space and time are totally fluid, right? Like you asked about these yogis that sit for hours just, you know, perhaps not sleeping and can recover sleep. It's a very unusual state and that tether requires effort.

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