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How to Build Extreme Willpower | David Goggins & Dr. Andrew Huberman
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I'm going to share a little neuroscience tidbit.
Love it.
But I think it's one that you'll appreciate.
Most people don't know this,
but there's a brain structure
called the anterior midcingulate cortex,
as we pointed out before, that's a noun, it's a name,
it doesn't mean anything.
Right. We could call it
the cookie monster.
Right.
But what's interesting about this brain area
is there's now a lot of data,
in humans, not some mouse study,
showing that when people do something they don't want to do,
like add three hours of exercise per day or per week,
or when people who are trying to diet and lose weight
resist eating something.
Right.
When people do anything that they,
and this is the important part,
that they don't want to do,
it's not about adding more work,
it's about adding more work that you don't want to do.
Yes.
This brain area gets bigger.
Yep.
Now here's what's especially interesting
about this brain area to me, and by the way,
I'm only learning this recently
because it's new data, but there's a lot of it.
The anterior midcingulate cortex
is smaller in obese people,
it gets bigger when they diet.
It's larger in athletes,
it's especially large or grows larger
in people that see themselves
as challenged and overcome some challenge.
Right.
And in people that live a very long time,
this area keeps its size.
In many ways, scientists are starting to think
of the anterior midcingulate cortex
not just as one of the seats of willpower.
Right.
But perhaps actually the seat of the will to live.
See, now we're talking.
And when I learned about the anterior midcingulate cortex,
I was like almost out of my seat.
And I've been in the neuroscience game since I was 20.
Now we're talking. And we're the same age.
And I was so pumped
'cause I've heard of the amygdala fear, prefrontal cortex,
it's planning and action.
I could tell you every brain area and every,
I teach neuroanatomy to medical students.
But when I started seeing the data
on the anterior midcingulate cortex,
I was like, whoa, this is interesting.
Yep.
And all the data points to the fact
that we can build this area up.
Yep.
But that, as quickly as we build it up,
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