We are all communicating in this virtual world these days. Is there anything from your experience of how eyes work that would indicate what we should do? For example, people often say you need to look at the camera so it looks like your looking at the person on the other end. The most powerful a way to connect with somebody through zoom or just in person, is actually not to stare directly at them the whole time.
“There’s no difference between the physiological response to something that you’re excited about and something that you’re nervous about or dreading,” says Andrew Huberman, associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University. In this podcast episode, Huberman talks with host and lecturer Matt Abrahams about his research on the autonomic continuum, a spectrum between states of very high alertness or fear, all the way down to deep sleep, and shares how to better-use the system to your advantage.
“If people can conceptualize that the anxiety or stress response is the same as the excitement response, they feel different,” Huberman says.
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