Embracing Fear
The highest level of autonomic arousal is linked to advancing toward threats, not freezing in fear. This forward movement activates reward circuits in the brain, suggesting that confronting fears can lead to positive experiences. Exploring this phenomenon reveals that high stress can enhance cognitive performance, allowing individuals to perceive their environment more acutely. Virtual reality serves as a safe platform to push boundaries and experience these heightened states without real-world risks.In this clip
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Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance | Lex Fridman Podcast #139
Related Questions
What does Andrew Huberman say about fear and the following stress responses?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
would every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?