#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Low Ceiling Environments - The Cathedral Effect
There's something alld the cathedral effect, which is, when you work in an outdoor environment or a high ceiling environment, it lends itself to kind of unintended, kind of loftier ideas and more creativity. There's a natural tendency, a reflex, to expand your visual field in these high ceiling environments. Expansion of the visual field changes the way the brain works in the time domain. Your engineering and biology oriented a listeners will understand this,. For those that don't, the best way to think about is when you have a narrow focus portrait mode on your phone, or you're very alert, you are fine slicing life in time. It's just how our brains work.
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