Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2024-09 to 2025-11.
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Most people lack the ability to concentrate not because of ADHD, but because they fail to limit their sensory inputs to reach a focused state.
“I actually believe there are some people with clinically diagnosible ADHD, but that most people are just not allowing themselves a narrow enough set of sensory inputs and context to drop into that trench.”
Huberman Lab · Nov 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.5M views on this topicConstant task-switching and multitasking are detrimental to memory and productivity because they fragment memories and deplete cognitive control resources.
“I'm not there where you are in this moment I'm several seconds behind you and I'm still catching up while you're talking and that requires even more control to get caught up and get back up to speed so I'm straining my matal resources I'm straining my cognitive control by shifting back and forth”
Huberman Lab · Sep 2024 · 1 episode · 630K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.