Huberman: Practicing impulse suppression in one task strengthens general self-control
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Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman explains how generic brain circuitry enables self-control habits to generalize across daily behaviors.
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“The thing to understand about neural circuitry is that it's generic. It doesn't, it's not designed so that you have a strong no-go response just to picking up your phone. It actually carries over to multiple other things. And this is also true of the go circuitry.”
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