How Google CEO Sundar Pichai maximizes focus | Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman

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[@rukminiroyy]

In the east, meditation is actually a state of mind while in the west, its seen as a practice. the lack of common definitions has led to so many misconceptions .. also perhaps the practice of sitting down and achieving the state of meditation (effortless focus) is how we train ourselves to switch states of consciousness, instead of being reliant on external sources like a guiding voice?

[@samuelghioto7622]

Yes I disagree with Andrew huberman here

[@valliappanmuthukaruppan4408]

Greatest misconception of meditation is that it requires effort and focus. On the contrary meditation is conscious rest where you don't do anything. The intention of meditation should be to achieve nothing. I am just gonna sit and observe my thoughts, not focus on my thoughts. If you notice being engrossed in your thoughts, you just break away from them. There is no shift of focus here, just awareness.

[@Ham-pb7pb]

Yeah like a flow state, basically meditation while you're doing something.

[@rukminiroyy]

@@kaydavisbeautywriter yeah these sound like flow states to me, but some consider this meditation.. this again, is more of the western definition though. it's not always that in meditation, you have no conscious thought. In open awareness (mindful) meditation, you can have conscious thoughts, you just need to be aware of them and not engage.. that being said, clearer definitions are really required; I'm hoping the scientists work together with buddhists and yogis to develop them, as opposed to creating their own definitions of eastern practices and confusing everyone more lol

[@AmandeepSinghGini]

Meditation does not require focus, true meditation is a passive practice, focus is the by-product of meditation. If someone is focussing, that's a concentration.

[@neilaggerwhil3817]

good point

[@Arafat-my6fe]

yeah, western people don't know what real meditation and yoga are. They have distorted the true version of meditation and doing the wrong method. And no wonder that they prefer to do other things over meditation.

[@jacksonmorris-thring644]

Wrong. You can meditate in a focus based meditation. Nice job sounding like an idiot tho

[@InspectorSmeg]

Not true. Focus on the breath, focus on various points on the body, focus on visualising all very prevalent parts of meditation

[@warhokn4178]

Focus could have a different meaning in the West. We give people drugs for focus. What I'm trying to say is that focus for us ,is kinda, defined as being able to not think about things. The drugs we give for ADHD stop thoughts they dont give thoughts.

[@danielzynn7795]

As a practitioner and teacher of meditation for many years, it is important to note that when many people try something it's possible to have a wide range of different experiences. A lot of this depends on the person and the current state that they are in. For example, if someone is suicidal the experience they have will probably be different than others.

[@mohdfaisalkhan6660]

He was talking about "samadhi" it is a part of enlightenment, in which some yogi believes that he/she left its body and became a part of collective consciousness.

[@kartikeyasaran]

NSDR is an ancient yogic technique originally knows as "Yoga Nidra". It is much more than what theyre talking about here.

[@vrushhabhpatel9173]

Can you elaborate in a specific way

[@sicapeo]

Dr. Huberman shouting ot Michael Sealey is dope af! I've been listening to Sealey for years, he's so good.

[@Jeed92]

nsdr is a small part of meditation, it is not distinct from meditation at all.

[@nicolasruf9508]

What's the name of the book he mentioned?

[@samuelghioto7622]

I disagree that meditation engages the prefrontal cortex. Yes, perhaps it does when one learns to meditate, but experienced practitioners will not have beta waves or prefrontal activity. It’s just like anyone who has does something repetitively. Overtime, the use of the prefrontal is irrelevant because the activity is ingrained.

[@InvictusLodge]

what an intellectual battle

[@PerformanceThroughHealth]

I use them daily to do just this. I've made my own and put them on my channel for others to use.

[@kite4792]

8:00 all jokes aside.. and since we're on the topic of #iphone #android #ads #focus ... why is ok for childrens applications (games, learning, etc) to have these constant ads? i understand its to annoy the user so that they buy the ad-free version but it just feels so wrong; here we have people talking about focus.. and then in DIRECT contradiction to it, we have these policies that seem to potentially harm the future generations abilities; that is why i dont take society seriously lol like we just create these problems and forget that in 10,20,30,40,50,60+ years, it will have consequences. *shrug* it is what it is

[@euku1]

Sure, the "force to buy the ad-free version" point is quite sensible, but these constant ads themselves serve a direct income purpose. Do you actually think that most of the children app developers even think about "future generations abilities"? Their main and often only goal is to earn some money off the children.

[@MyNewYorkCity.]

Spot on about Android,I own both👍🏽

[@chirantanlonkar8188]

what is NSTR

[@cory99998]

Yeah, meditation is hard which is why it's so beneficial. Put yourself through the effort if you want better results.

[@GrishaKrivchenia]

Exactly!

[@noahl.1003]

I love this man

[@kenlewis2253]

I learned yoga nidra from Dr. Nick Atlas. He is an amazing teacher!

[@TheBanterCity]

Is it lucid dreaming?

[@abhilekhhhh]

I have listened to osho for hundreds of hours for this underlying reason only I believe

[@jgarciajr82]

It's not about state changes it's about trait changes.

[@ambarishdeshmukh143]

What he is trying to say about meditation is What he has heard about meditation and not what experts say or a guru says about meditation. There are 112 differets types of mediation (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) and each type included a different approach. The byproduct of meditation is increased focus and concentration and tonnes of others, but mediation is not just focusing. I am saying this coz I practiced meditation for 4 years consistently.

[@akfootballforever]

Did you stop after 4 years? If yes, why?

[@stackingflow]

What is the most efficient (minimum time waste in finding resources) way to learn all this

[@bruno3]

"There are 112 different types of meditation". Why 112? Why not make an effort and think of 114? Or 115? This is all completely random. Meditation has real effect on people but there isn't any real "knowledge" about it, every piece of knowledge is fabricated and arbitrary. Those who speak of it as a science, and those who speak of "gurus" as experts on something they've completely made up, are either trying to fool others or themselves. Meditation can be hard for some people, but its concept is actually pretty simple and straightforward.

[@bruno3]

@@investmentinfogeek8679 No, there aren't 112 energy centres in our body. That's not even a thing, it's completely made up. Not by you but by whoever said it first.

[@andistheinforitbutso7513]

thanks

[@cal.5081]

On man, not the podcast to literally watch hours before I start a silent retreat lol.

[@sup3a]

Dont worry dude :D super rare what I've heard

[@VSM101]

This is just an anecdote this is incredibly rear

[@raphael1808]

What’s the app he recommends?

[@jeffcaracol166]

Reveri

[@mrsbenedictcumberbatch9565]

I don't think I have laughed this much at a lex fridman video

[@MrSebastiantaylor1]

Why?

[@CarlitoFluito]

I love the android - apple beef 🤣

[@nwerdscissorhands7475]

As Sundur Pichai ponders with maximum focus "How can I censor my political opponents and then lie about it later."

[@TheDanielLivingston]

The hell are you on about

[@karanvarma5789]

Those guys are above Sundar he is just a yes men

[@stackingflow]

Does anyone know what is the best way to learn meditation, yoga all in a systemic manner, from zero to hero, in a way that it makes sense? Watching videos on youtube doesn't build any kind of information structure inside brain, its just random content.

[@samuelghioto7622]

Go practice yoga (specifically Ashtanga yoga) and visit a meditation center nearby

[@samuelghioto7622]

Or go to India. Sadhguru has a center in Tennessee where he teaches yoga

[@stackingflow]

@@samuelghioto7622 sadguru is scam

[@fricze]

Lex might give "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a read and see whether it changes his views on Android vs Apple.

[@potatoface4698]

i prefer cruelty free and child labor free devices (apple is a bad mega corporation without morals)

[@hieroprotoganist3440]

Can you give a summary?

[@fricze]

​@@hieroprotoganist3440 It's a lengthy book, but in a few words: everything that Google touches is a spying device designed to get all possible info about you and your surroundings. This data is used to create predictions models of people's behavior. Models can be used to sell you something, manipulate you into believing you need particular products, or influence elections on a huge scale. First, using these models, they can find undecided voters, and later, knowing in detail how people behaved in past, prepare actions to change those people's minds as they wish. Also, Dr. Robert Epstein says some interesting stuff about it.

[@jeffmiller3499]

@@hieroprotoganist3440 kind of ridiculous to ask that of someone... If you are curious enough you can look it up yourself. Seeking knowledge is great but expecting others to do the work for you is not.

[@hieroprotoganist3440]

@@jeffmiller3499 Some people doesn't have the time to seek knowledge.

[@davidlakhter]

2:35 this is probably because you wake up w/ a cortisol boost 4:30 agreed. integration is very scary

[@gto433]

I've been integrating for 3 years, not easy at all.

[@Iamthatknows]

Michael Sealey great!!!

[@brandonanderson3310]

By drinking...

[@navigator1819]

Great information but hearing talks like this makes my mind question itself about things it can't answer. I'd like to forget this conversation and move on. I don't like to talk about my mind. I like to talk about the outside.

[@Ashish-nd3xj]

Lol so true !

[@patelien]

holy shit, Michael seeley already has millions of views. wait for this bump.

[@Baraa.K.Mohammad]

😂😂 I find it hilarious and interesting at the same time that Andrew can't get a book's (two actually lol) name right while he is talking about focus, performance and memory! Joking aside, his advises are game changers and trying some of them made me realize how little we know about how much we can control/influence our state of mind (or even psyche) by using simple and intuitively accessible features that we already have and unconsciously utilize without knowing!

[@eightpercentdisciple]

He didn't mention anything about memory.

[@drewdabrew4745]

I agree people think we NEED drugs to fix our bodies and mind, completely false. Breathing is a very useful tool people have yet to utilize as well

[@vimmermand12]

This must be a man who never meditated…

[@VSM101]

I prefer meditation espically dharna.

[@TheMsksk]

NSDR is Yoga Nidra. It's just a more palapable version to the western scientific community.

[@VSM101]

They just secularized everything and rename it like its something different lol

[@anewperspective247]

Bro science is doing more harm than good. Andrews claims on nsdr vs meditation have nothing to do with science. He's pumping a new script on age old science that he is talking shit about to build value in his nuanced perspective.

[@TheMsksk]

Exactly

[@LiamDangerPark]

I’m gonna need a translation on this. What are you saying ?

[@anewperspective247]

@@LiamDangerPark he is stating his opinion as though it has scientific value, when he is just fucking up the understanding of previous concepts to give insight to his perspective. If he didn’t have a broken perspective on the topic, his voice would have no value to you. Instead he lies about one topic to describe truth in another.

[@anewperspective247]

@@razz9565 what he does for a living doesn’t mean anything about what he says. You are falling for the oldest distortion in the book, “I think he is a smart person because of what he does, what he says must be smart.” Be a thinker, not a sheeple!

[@manasasb536]

please call sundar pichai for podcast . love from india.

[@user-vi7jn5ph9b]

Stopped before 2 minutes. That is not how meditation is done. Lost credibility. Still love Lex.

[@ftnsco]

He hurt his android ego 😅

[@_general_error]

Android 12 is much closer to makak monkeys... It's still powerful though.

[@HDIII]

By being placed into the role he sadly still runs Google from. Some Big league Bank Boys put him there w/ little to no expectations other than, “Do not F this up.”

[@caiolimacaldas]

Sundar Pichai for the next Alphabet chairman.

[@lucas43536]

I was sure that the guy in the video was Google CEO :/

[@theArtiist_David]

Even EXPONENTIALLY BETTER than all these- resting in God’s presence. Not only do I get insane creative ideas and solutions in His presence, but HIS peace imprints my heart and mind and it’s beyond game changing, and I make history cultivating a relationship with THE Creator! Meditation = emptying yourself Gods Presence = fills you with Himself You can figure out what’s better of the two

[@dayooladipo2992]

I'm deeply distracted by what Andrew said last. It must hurt so BAD, even if you're just serving a month’s sentence.

[@JustDisc]

Please do not ask people to subscribe to your channel at the beginning of your video. We don’t even know what you have to offer yet

[@Avinash1421]

Yoga nidra 👏👏👏

[@shriyashukla4119]

Andrew Huberman has a chip on his shoulder about eastern attitudes towards anything related to the brain, because they aren't what he grew up with. And he has a lot of pride in the Western understanding of these subject matters.

[@prajneshjain4836]

He looks like Lex's brother!

[@chromgoog3141]

Very superficial interpretation of meditation - the guy should not confuse this with the Indian way of mediation - it is some western mish-mash…bottled recipe

[@zuhdi6140]

Android gang! 💪

[@vimaladakoju6925]

Namaste sir happy day 😔 ji namaste save soil let's make it happy shievyougiji namaste thank you ji...

[@krishnasaisudarshan9825]

That guy is a Brahmin . He has his nithya karma to perform. He is living a life away from performing his given duties and now turning to activities that are not required for him to do. This is what happens when you dive deep into materialism. The result is you lose your true identity and even fail to understand it.

[@curcumin417]

Rituals based in religion are not scientific fact. Worry about your life rather than dictating to others.

[@rohanmaghade]

@@curcumin417 lol there's none stupider than you kind of people. He's talking some very deep stuff which is rooted in truth, you have no idea at all. Spread your materialist science gospel elsewhere because we understand what you're saying but have already gone beyond that in knowledge.

[@arcforable]

I edge for at least 3 hours per day…Never been more focused on getting those floors mopped

[@logantcooper6]

On android you can make the bubbles whatever color you want 🤷‍♂️

[@mirali6545]

Hi 👋

[@MichaelJames707]

🏆

[@finelliott2440]

Kill themselves after reaching enlightenment? (scratches head)

[@-rpm]

Take Yoga Nidra, repackage it and call it "NSDR", get accolades. Classic cultural appropriation. It's ok if you want to get fame but why not give credits where it's due.

[@alexbrass4823]

💚💚💚💚💚🧠🧠🧠🧠🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔💚💚💚

[@Kunal-uk7wm]

India🇮🇳

[@smallsoultalk]

I love Andrew but I lost you here mate…

[@hussienalsafi1149]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@DeZiio]

15 comments but 463k subs. Russian spy love the content tho keep it coming

[@ilikedogs870]

Meditation doesn’t require focus lol

[@finelliott2440]

strange stuff

[@kiransamthomas]

correct!

[@beoptimal8650]

depends on which type of meditation

[@ilikedogs870]

@@beoptimal8650 true but most meditation practices lead to open awareness

[@VSM101]

@Critical Humanoid there are several different meditation practices for specific different outcomes.

[@mfit7110]

Binaural beats with a guy talking slow……. Nothing special