Is minimalist footwear better for my feet than "regular" shoes
I would like to know if there are evidence based studies for minimalist shoes, the makers of several advertise that your foot strength will increase dramatically over say 6 months and modern footwear actually weakens our feet.
Effects of Early Age Eye Trauma
Dr. Huberman, When I was 3 years old (I am turning 33 this November) I sustained major trauma to my right eye when a branch in our family fireplace popped free and ripped across my iris and scarred my cornea. After surgeries and talk of doing a cornea transplant (but deciding against) I was left with 20/200 vision that I eventually got to 20/80 with contact lenses and patching. My right eye is extremely sensitive to sun light as the iris is torn and cannot contract or dilate leaving my eye far more open than even the most dilated pupil. I have heard you speak on how the focus of the eyes precedes mental focus and how light can affect dopamine production. I was never diagnosed with ADD/ADHD growing up but can attest to the difficulty in pay attention due to what I hypothesize was due to the damaged eye. What sort of challenges would this impend on development mainly on the ability to focus (in school, on a subject, etc.) Additionally, would this have any effect on the way I produce dopamine or how or when I produce it? And finally, do you have any suggestions moving forward to ameliorate any of the possible affects (mental or physical) that sustaining such an event as eye trauma?
The relationship between Motivation and Self-discipline
Hi Huberman Lab Team Thanks for all the great content you guys put out, its really interesting and helpful for me and most likely to the rest of your listeners. I'm trying to understand the relationship between self-discipline and motivation. Dr. Huberman mentioned that we can leverage our dopamine to increase our levels of motivation by primarily increasing our general baseline dopamine levels (thus increasing our overall feeling of motivation), and also by attaching a dopamine increase above baseline to certain tasks and behaviours (thus making a particular task very rewarding and increasing the craving we have for the task while we aren't engaging in it). As a student completing a Double Major in Finance & Accounting in Australia, I'm finding it really difficult to remain disciplined and complete the readings, lectures, tutorial work etc that I'm required to if I want to do well. The reason for this is that I'd say I'm not that interested in the subject. I was wondering if you could advise a particular mantra, routine or some sort of script to help students who are struggling with the same feelings of lethargy and disinterest in the content we are learning (trust me there are many students in this boat ahah).