How to Use Music to Boost Motivation, Mood & Improve Learning | Huberman Lab Podcast

Great Information. Thank you😊

Sundance songs <3

Classical music

This war drums.. it looks alot like Hardcore music! I love hardcore music.. makes me feel at ease..

Please do not promote here Ai composing future , please!

Through my own experience, yes it is absolutely true when working on something cognitive
listening to music Of any kind impedes my ability to learn this idea of competing narratives makes total sense. However, when I am working on any kind of creative writing, I guess I'm sort of an anomaly. Listening to my favorite music, whether instrumental or with lyrics helps me to write better. It's as if I am a character in my own movie....sounds a bit weird probably but this feeling makes me more creative and enhances my focus. Go figure😂

Specific music frequencies has made a huge impact on my personal healing journey, therefore I love using music for guided self hypnosis and meditation recordings for my clients, and for that I have been doing a lot of research on music frequencies. Thank you Dr. Huberman for such a profound insight into this topic. 🙏❣️

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Music can lower resting heart-rate.

Great talk, a beautiful amalgamation of the research done around music and it's wide variety of benefits in human life. I've been a musician, composer, improviser, and dancer for 20 years and many of the observations Andrew laid out affirmed many experiences I've had over the years. As a reference point for the "Weightless" song AH mentioned, many ambient artists have been exploring music that has this effect for many years, check out Brian Eno's work, Nils Frahm, Cayote Oldman, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Mariana Raye, and so many others. As well as traditional flute music from India and other indigenous cultures around the world, check out Rakesh Chaurasia, or generally Indian Classical Flute or native American Flute, or Mongolian flute or throat singing, or all the amazing music from Africa. Many "world music" artists that make largely acoustic (not electronic) music, create music that is relaxing, or even I would say healing on so many levels, I personally feel that the modern human needs more acoustic music to settle our nervous system.
Pertaining to the brief but positive comment on AI music. I am highly pessimistic, not because I think AI will take over or make better music than humans though. In fact I feel that all the science AH lays out in this cast shows how AI can never make great music, because AI DOES NOT FEEL, and will likely never get to that space where it can have an actual human experience. To make GOOD and PROFOUND music takes a human who has experienced a wide variety of life experiences, ease and struggle, triumph and regrets and all of it. AI can try to mimic what has already come, but it can never be at the frontline of music cultivation because it cannot do that without the human animal experience. So much of what AH laid out here shows how Somatic of an experience music is in the human reality, AI has no body to have that somatic experience, therefor it cannot generate music with that feeling, once again, it can mimic what has already been, but likely will not ever, or at least for a long time, actually make what I consider to be GOOD music.
Also along these lines is the question of why we make music, and AH talked about intention. In my experience the music is not separate from the intention of the maker of that music, therefor if we listen to music that one makes as a prayer for healing or simply a feeling of goodness, then that comes through the music, likewise if someone makes music because they are motivated by money (IE the entire music industry at large currently) then that music is likely to inspire others to follow that path of motivation. Potentially entirely missing the wholistic richness of nuance that music can encompass. As AH said, music and dance likely existed before language, so as humans today, who are so disconnected from the Biosphere and our animal selves, I personally feel that "acoustic/ organic/ natural" music is what will bring us back to that inter-relatedness in a healthy way. I love to dance to some electronic music, but find that energetically something is missing from most electronic music that acoustic music has. Hard to put a finger on it, but I FEEL IT!
I also want to reference Reggae music, for Reggae is a music that holds so many of the aspects that Andrew spoke about in this talk, music that both has the possibility to relax us, yet also inspire us, help us let go of worry, yet increase awareness/ concern about the current (and historical) imbalanced state of human kind. I have found that conscious Reggae music particularly has the ability to be so motivating for us to know who we really are and uplift us towards naturalistic living in balance with the biosphere. Very few other music's do this, and do it with great authenticity and also vigor. Check out Mike Love, Groundation, Clinton Fearon, Mo Kalamity, for some amazing Reggae music with a high level of musicianship alongside powerful feeling and honest, inspiring lyrics. Very excited to hear Andrew go deeper into this with specialists around lyrics, the voice, and improvising. That will be so interesting to hear. Houston, TX, 36 yr old.

Musician and lover of music history, here. Andrew Huberman delivers a fascinating look into the power of music to make us feel. The Baroque period was all about wanting to create music that would move the emotions; it was a radical departure from the polyphony of the Renaissance .
Those responsible were artists and intellectuals such as Vincenzo Galilei, who were aware of the power of a melodic line with a simple accompaniment. They believed they were recreating Ancient Greek theatre. And so recitative and opera were created. Great podcast!

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GRAHAM HANCOCK!!!
ANCIENT WISDOM NEEDS TO MARRY MODERN SCIENCE!! Quit filtering your perceptions through a subset of people YOU deem important to talk to :) BE PROVOCATIVE; YOUR PODCAST HAS GROWN STALE!!!

No wonder I stopped listening music for a few years! The medication they had me take blocked my serotonin and dopamine. So, I guess that's why I didn't enjoy music anymore..as well as so many other things.

One of my favourite episodes 🤍

I wonder if the optimal time to listen to music in order to be happy being 9 minutes is related to song length. Songs are generally 3 minutes long so this would be 3 songs to completion.

Omg this is amazing. SO fascinating! Thanks for responding on insta. When I was in the 8th grade my science fair project was music and the brain! Music is the best ❤

Brazilian phonk turns me into a narcissistic monster at the gym . Listening to audiobooks while I workout is much better for my mental health

Doof Doof Doof. I knew I was right.

totally Huberman you are a music to our ears

I want introduce you with "Mohsen Namjoo"
he is a different artist

Hello Dr. Huberman. I would like to suggest a theme for future episode. How to improve memory for people with brainchimo effects, during and after treatments. Thanks you.

Duh, slaves in the USA played and listened to the blues to move past their feelings

Im adopting the term 'muffin song'.

So, what i take from this is, to cure my profound lack of motivation, i just need an 80s dude with a ghetto blaster following me all day, so he can press play whenever i need to transition from one activity to another.

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In Short: Our brain is literally music…
Notes: This was a really interesting and necessary topic---the beauty of the fact that our neurons literally play music in our brains can not be stated enough. It really highlights why music plays such a critical role in our emotions and brains generally. However, your personal love of music and experiences, which i've heard you speak about in many different podcasts, don't come across very well and it makes me want to ask you more personal and relatable questions about how music has shaped and affected huberman, not just how it generally affects people.

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My brother loves heavy metal music and he swears that it is soothing to him. I have my doubts, but also trust my brother and he is pretty self-aware. The lyrics to his music are actually pretty uplifting, but the musical component is, well... Heavy metal. I wonder if his breathing changes to slow his heart rate when he listens, as the study suggests when someone listens to their favorite music. Oh I'm so curious and might have to look this up in that paper that was referenced! 🎶🎵🎧. Thank you for leaving a motivational curiosity in my mind!

I'd rather listen to music made by humans than AI, even if it's worse. It feels weird to know that it wasn't made by a human

When i was depressed I used to listen to music for 5 hours a day, sometiem lying in bed motionlessly and listening. Now I don't do that to that extent but I most often check out 2h at last. Sounds affect me and trigger my imagination, feelings, and sometimes the etheral feeling, real levitation. Sometimes I need absolute silence but most often I require a soundtrack to my life and whatever I am doing haha.

To the music with lyrics/reading part - I never heard a voice in my head while reading. My thoughts also don't have a voice or sound (unless I am recalling a sound/dialogue from a movie or music). It's silent. The thoughts just are but they dont have a voice or a form as I am thinking to myself. Could it be because I'm dyslexic? I always struggle with reading and reading out loud is still a problem for me even as an adult, even tho I read very fast in my head. Still, in silence. And contradictory to that, I usually react very strongly to music, very emotionally. I am an artistic person as a core part of my personality and I also am very good at learning languages and doing the accent correctly. Now I would like to have a brain scan to see what sort of connection I have between my language-imagination brain parts.

what if you listen to music with lyrics in languages you don't speak?

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When you say about music while you work, it sounds like you mean white collar mental / academic work, rather than physically active work. I would think that music definitely helps people doing physically active work. Reminds me there was a radio show "Music while you work" during WW2.

Good morning God bless you 😊

The violin story was probably the best part of this video

James Brown and Jimi Hendrix is good for me when I do labor.

great one

My grandtrs recognized and responded to music my dtr played for them during pregnancy

thanks to mr Huberman for his great explanations. bout music. listening a lot of recordings creates a sort of internal vocabulary in which we can learn not only emotions but the architecture of the language. classical or rock or anything.genre. . the studying of architectures can make a study of popular expression of populations too from the ancient to the moderns times . playin an instrument makes a double brain work cause the neurons development of connections with fingers and arms. its a fantastic neurons mystery connections between emotional listening and physical movement. another brain mystery is his capacity of improvisations ,developed with jazz. the real unbelievable creativity. not for all ,only for great musicians. ciao from Italy.

I’m so happy about your sweet tooth tangent 😅

If music is a combination of frequencies that run concurrently, why not explore and study how specific frequencies move matter, the neurotransmitters, into form (cymatics) which would optimize a better signal to the brain? Western modality of music composition is mainly major and minor. These presets of experiential modality come from the early years of subjecting one's experience for the first time, from recall. Example: major music: Happy Birthday to You, Once instilled in the brain, one will equate any tonic, M3rd, P5th as an environment of happiness. Minor modality: Greensleeves tells of a man's rejection of love from a woman. There it is, acceptance and rejection. But Western music composition is too limited. Getting back to using cymatic expressions of not only moving matter but shaping it, into a chosen form is how we at Cymatrax have developed software to be used in a successful clinical trial at the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at James Madison University showing such filtering can enrich music therapy in those with ADHD.

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Thank you so much, I've been writing songs (purely for my own self enjoyment) for much of my life. We have these ancient systems in our brains.... truly remarkable!!!.... also, the subconscious provides the most incredible music, it's when one is not trying and just improvising, when the most unexpected happens.... the music just forms, and it surprises me what comes out!!!.... thank you again, life is for learning, and I've learned a lot with your podcast!