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I Tried Andrew Huberman's Morning Routine
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thank you to hellofresh for sponsoring this video this is Andrew huberman the internet's favorite neuroscientist Andrew huberman Andrew huberman Andrew huberman through his research at Stanford University in his excellent podcast he has become the go-to expert on the best habits and routines for living a successful and fulfilling life and this is me while I don't think I have the worst habits in the world lately I've been in a slump less energy throughout the day slacking off in healthy habits and an inability to focus on my work leading to a constant feeling like I'm going through the motions at half speed so for the next 30 days I want to try Andrew huberman's science-backed morning routine to see if it can pull me out of the rut that I'm in but what is Andrew huberman's morning routine for me I tend to wake up sometime around 6:00 a.m. 6:30 and I write down the time in which I woke up the second thing I do after I wake up is I make a beine for sunlight so getting outside for a 10minute walk or a 15minute walk is absolutely vital to mental and physical health we get back I start craving caffeine but I purposely delay my caffeine intake to 90 minutes to 120 minutes after I wake up so for me I just drink water I also put a little bit of sea salt in the water and I also drink my athletic greens which is compatible with fasting so I don't eat anything until about 11:00 a.m. or 12: noon next I would do a 90minut bout of work and that's typically phone off and out of the room you'd be amazed how much you can get done in 90 minutes if you are focused after I finish that cognitive work bout I do some form of physical exercise for about an hour very last but certainly not least deliberate cold exposure and that's what I do each morning and I'm certain that these tools work on day one I wake up craving coffee however instead I get ready and I head out from my morning walk and while it's definitely no morning coffee it actually is really really nice and I feel pretty good afterwards what doesn't feel so good though is drinking salt water but I don't want to rely on how I'm feeling to evalu my progress on this goal as feelings can change pretty quickly I don't want to do this I don't want to do this here we go to track my progress with this challenge I'm going to be conducting three tests the first is I just took a blood test for day one that's going to measure things like my testosterone levels and judging by how scared I was to prick my finger oh I can't do it I can't do it I'm worried they might be a little low ow test number two is by tracking my energy and my my mood levels at the end of each day I've already been doing this for the past month so at the end of this I'm going to compare my numbers and see if I've made any improvements finally I'll be testing my work productivity to help me evaluate that I've asked for help from the one person who knows my work habits better than anyone else my name is Brendan I am Cam's brother and his boss you're not my boss I'm evaluating how you do it your job that makes me your boss just talk about my work habits sure you procrastinate get distracted procrastinate more just a Serial scroller bad communication bad time management Miss deadlines yeah I think that sums it up and sadly he's not wrong I am terrible at focusing and in my first week in this challenge that seemingly has not changed even with a science back checklist to help my brain is still struggling to get into the zone and work effectively and even though it's still early into this goal I really need to figure this out for a bit more context I work from home most days and if you come through here just got to come through the bathroom past the toilet and voila this is where I work staring at a screen in a storage room closet that is connected to my bathroom now I have done the the best to make this space feel cozy however it is still kind of a shitty place to work no pun intended and with that I've become really good at getting out of this room and distracting myself at any chance I can get even with my phone out of the room I am getting up constantly to top up on coffee or look for snacks that I can't even eat because I'm fasting and with each of these interruptions I'm killing my momentum when I try to dig into a task and I'm falling further and further behind in my work and this is definitely the area I need to improve the most or at least that's what I thought testosterone that's your ideal range 2.49 2.4 I'm below average gosh I am speechless I am speechless so one week in and I am failing in two categories great with the discouraging week one complete I really want to hone in on improving my work sessions for week two so I decide to revisit some hubman lab episodes to see if there's any tweaks I can make to improve my focus couple of things for optimizing workspace that are grounded in neuroscience and physiology so what I do is I prop the computer up such that it's at least at at eye level when our eyes are directed upward it creates a state of heightened alertness in addition I use low-level White Noise turned on at a low volume not with headphones most of the time puts the brain into a state that's optimal for Learning and workflow the one single perk of working in a bathroom white noise is easy to come by I'm hoping that if I compare as much of huberman's advice on focus with the rest of my morning routine that it can put me in the best possible position to lock in on my work and really start to see some progress this feels crazy to say this early into a challenge but I feel like I'm already noticing benefits from this strictly from like an energy and mood standpoint I used to wake up every morning and just like Doom scroll Twitter and now I like I genuinely look forward to these walks but get some natural light in my eyes get some fresh air some steps I'm like halfway through an audio book that I started this week things are going well even with my cold showers while they're definitely not fun during I do feel energized afterwards and it feels like it fuels the rest of my day this next blood test it's about to be so much better but as much as I've seen Improvement in my energy and in my health my work sessions still seem to come up short if I'm being honest there hasn't been as much improvement as I was hoping it's hard to point to anything and say you've accomplished more than you normally do determined to improve my performance I opted to switch where I was going to be working and hopefully get myself into a better zone for focused [Music] work but after 3 days working out of my house my work still hasn't improved and it's starting to look more and more like the problem isn't where I'm working the problem is me yet another day where I am not as productive as I should just feels like the story of my life at this point ever since I started working for myself ever since it's just me and my computer in my house like it is like pulling teeth it it it just feels like my brain cannot do this and I don't know what that is but it feels like I've been fighting against the same thing number one problem in my life is being able to work for myself be disciplined be focused in my own work and I like it's been 8 years of fighting the same thing like how does it make any sense it starts to just feel like like it just starts to feel like this is who I am like this is like maybe I'm just like not the person that I thought I was maybe this is just like it you know and that's that is scary and I just feel like I'm leaving so much potential on the table for myself for my future and that like that thought is like horrifying you know goodness gracious feeling defeated my only hope now is to try and work backwards through the past two weeks to hopefully try and figure out what has been holding me back why is it that everything feels like it's working except for this one thing ever since it's just me and my computer in my house it is like pulling teeth just a Serial scroller halfway through an audio book that I started this week and I just feel like I'm leaving so much potential on the table for myself for my future like that thought is like horrifying even though I've been working with my phone off and out of the office I am still constantly using it throughout this routine on my walks before I get ready to work and after my 90 minutes are up I immediately go to my phone and if I'm constantly distracting myself before I sit down it feels like I just keep craving that distraction when I'm working [Music] the next morning I decided to try keeping my phone powered down until it was time for my lunch break to see if it would help me Focus the moment you sit down to do some serious work and you flip off the internet all of a sudden it's as if the phone has a voice but we all are familiar with the fact that if we are focused on something that we all that just kind of melts away so I'm creating this space I'm funneling my brain into a state where I set up a relationship not just between me and the work that I'm doing but between me and my ability to control my own State of Mind the more I avoided using my phone the more focused I felt allowing me to move throughout my mornings faster and more productively and on the days where I really wanted to use my phone the most I straight up stashed that sh in my car because I need to focus and I have to say that while it can be a challenge to try and achieve this state and this tunnel of work some days you start to get kind of addicted to it it feels really good it's like a workout for the mind I don't remember the last time I had an experience where I I feel like I was in a flow state twice today twice oh and it feels good I cannot say it enough that felt so good today as strange as this may sound I feel like the habit of jumping in the cold showers and drinking those awful salt water drinks has actually made me more resilient when it comes to distraction because just practicing that daily habit of doing something hard that I know will be satisfying once it's over it's literally the exact same thing with getting in focused work it's hard it's challenging but I feel so much better than I have in some time we got a 10 energy in a tenin mood that is the first perfect day of this challenge today was a good day a really really good day and when I tally up my numbers from the last 30 days there's been Improvement in both my energy levels and my mood with my reported energy levels increasing almost two whole points it's not just that you've turned in everything on time this week which I appreciate it's that it's really good work which leaves just one final test here we go day one day 30 let's go I'm average vitamin D got better my cholesterol got better everything is better things have been going so well I even started putting my friends onto the routine I've been doing the huberman morning routine and how did you hear about it you told me about it hey things have been going so well that I am honestly going going to continue doing this and I'm so thankful that I gave this a try and to celebrate on the final day I invited my brother and my friend Matt out to go for a cold plunge to finish this off by doing something challenging that I know will feel good afterwards and my hope is that going forward after this challenge that I can do that more often that I can force myself to do difficult things that I know will pay off in time oh let's go
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