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#496 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Science Of Peak Performance

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Why Do My Palms Get Sweaty When I Watch Videos of Parachoters?

We are so visual that when we see depth of field that's not a parallel to the ground, it is terrifying. More than forty per cent of the human brain has something to do with vision and eye movements. When you see that depth offield in the direction of gravity, you have a little microactivity in your brain that you might fall. And i think it's for the same reason that those ou two vidios are terrifying, which is that we are so visual. I mean, this is the reason why we're drawn like srogam, or tik-like taxicab drivers.

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