What Andrew Huberman has said about Finding one's passion

Huberman argues that people find their passion by becoming good at effort in things they are not passionate about.

“you find your passion by getting good at effort in things that you're not passionate about so that when you eventually find your passion, you can just get there much faster”

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Huberman contends that genuine optimization is adaptive rather than rigid and must fit real-life constraints.

“Optimization is not going to be about being rigid. It's going to be about being adaptive”

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Huberman invokes Joe Strummer's 'no input, no output' to argue that discovering a passion requires active engagement with the world.

“which is no input, no output. You need to be interfacing with the world in order to have ideas and to discover what your passion is”

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Huberman advises apprenticing oneself to a field and mastering its core mechanics before attempting to add a personal spin.

“you got to get the core mechanics and the basics first. You don't get to come in there and be like, I'm me and I'm going to change the game. No, it's chop wood, carry water”

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Huberman warns against two traps while searching for a vocation: being pulled into drama and numbing out.

“You need to avoid two things critically. These are the don'ts, avoid drama,”

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