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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky ISBN 009957506X
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Robert Sapolsky ISBN 009957506X
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This book by Robert Sapolsky has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Michael Mauboussin. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-08-30 and the most recent from 2023-03-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its genetic inheritance. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one.
“he wrote a book called Behave in 2017, which is, I would say, probably the best book I've ever read on human nature.”— Michael Mauboussin
The guest here is Michael Mauboussin: Head of Consilient Research on Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, longtime Columbia Business School adjunct finance professor, and author of investing classics including Think Twice, The Success Equation, More Than You Know, and Expectations Investing. Michael Mauboussin breaks down how great investors decide: base rates, wisdom of crowds, decision biases, and complex adaptive systems.
“"The Trouble with Testosterone", and "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst". During the course of our discussion today”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Stanford professor of biology and neurosurgery, primatologist, and bestselling author of 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers' and 'Behave,' known for decades of research on stress, hormones, and baboon social behavior. Robert Sapolsky explains why testosterone doesn't cause aggression, what actually buffers stress, and why he thinks free will doesn't exist.
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