Books Recommended by Andrew Huberman

I am a big fan of Cal Newport, who wrote the book "Deep Work." He's also written the excellent book "A World Without Email." I've never met him, but I'm a huge admirer of his work.

And if anyone hasn't read "War of Art," it's an absolute must-read. I've read it many times.

Because everyone, if they haven't already read "Atomic Habits," they absolutely should and incorporate the tools, but what are you onto now?

You recommended "The Road to Character" to me. I do an annual solo wilderness trip, and I listen to it during the drive to that trip and on that trip, and I would just say it's a truly important book for everyone to listen to.

I first learned about Robert's work from reading the book, "Mastery," which to my mind is a brilliant exploration and a practical tool for how to think about and pursue one's purpose. Whenever I'm asked for book suggestions, I always include "Mastery" in my top three recommendations.

Also, check out Matt Walker's terrific, terrific book, "Why We Sleep," and that will help you find various protocols to help you optimize your sleep.

And I highly recommend it to everybody.

To learn more about his work and to find links to his book, "Permission to Feel," which by the way, I highly recommend, as well as other links to his laboratory and other resources, please see the links in the show note captions.

I don't know which book to recommend most, but I love "The War of Art." I love "Do the Work." I mean, there are so many, so I won't ask you... To add just one other, "Gates of Fire." They're all awesome.

"Lifespan" is this terrific book about aging as a disease and the future and present of longevity treatments.

And I recommended three books at the end of the course, every year that I taught it. I taught it for four years. And one of the books was the book, "Longitude," which is a wonderful story about the discovery of timekeeping devices at sea.

I've read "The Coddling of the American Mind." It's an incredibly important book.

In fact, in one of my favorite books, "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, he was a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon.

But years ago I read a book that I really enjoyed, which is Sam Sheridan's book "A Fighter's Heart."

It's an excellent book, "Altered Traits" by Goleman and Davidson.

A note about nasal versus mouth breathing: there is a plethora of information out there now because of James Nestor's book "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art," which came out this last year, excellent book.

I've read "The Coddling of the American Mind." It's an incredibly important book. "The Anxious Generation," incredibly important book.

In fact, a book that I highly recommend, if you want to read more about dopamine, is a book that frankly I wish I had written. It's such a wonderful book. It's called "The Molecule of More."

I read Morgan's book, "The Psychology of Money," and I loved it.

So, many years ago, I read the book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, "Wherever You Go, There You Are." It's a beautiful book, both physically and in what's written there, that teaches you to sit down, pay attention to your breathing, redirect your focus, eat a single almond, focus on the experiences.

Dr. Bill Eddy is the author of several important books related to this topic and related topics, such as "Five Types of People That Can Ruin Your Life." It's an excellent book. I've read it, and I highly recommend it for everyone.

I am a big fan of Cal Newport, who wrote the book "Deep Work." He's also written the excellent book "A World Without Email." I've never met him, but I'm a huge admirer of his work.

If you're interested in attachment styles and how they influence adult romantic attachments and, certainly, if you are a parent, I would encourage you to check out the book "Attached."

I read his book, "Be the Pack Leader," and the principles within that book were critical for developing an incredible relationship with Costello, who lived 11 years.

I don't know which book to recommend most, but I love "The War of Art." I love "Do the Work." I mean, there are so many, so I won't ask you... To add just one other, "Gates of Fire." They're all awesome.

It's beautifully described in her book "Dopamine Nation," by the way. Excellent book I recommend to all people, addicts or not.

Her first book is "How Emotions Are Made." This is not a book she sent me. I paid for this with my own money years ago. Bought it, read it, loved it long before I met Lisa.

And there's a terrific book called "Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic," which was written by my colleagues Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich at Stanford and Stanford Medicine with a foreword by Jared Diamond and Robert Sapolsky.

In my opinion, "Livewired" is the most recent and up-to-date and the best one to date.

In Herman Hesse's book, I don't know if you read "Narcissus and Goldmund," it's about these elements of the logical, rational mind and the emotional mind and how those are woven together. If people haven't read it, they should.

If anyone is interested in understanding where we are in the arc of medicine and culture, I highly recommend reading Oliver Sacks' book, "On the Move."

This is a phenomenal book. I've read it cover to cover now three times.

One book I'll leave as a mystery, not to be mysterious, but because it's a science book. I'll just tell you what it is. It's "Principles of Neuroscience."

I get a lot of requests for neuroscience book recommendations. Liqun Luo’s Principles of Neurobiology is the best textbook out there.

He also has a book, it's called, "Right Brain Psychotherapy," and it's an excellent book. It's actually pretty accessible, even if you don't have a background in biology or psychology. I found it to be very interesting.

She's written two books that are really wonderful. One is "How Emotions Are Made," which was her first book. The second one is "Seven and a Half Facts About the Brain." It's a wonderful book as well.

But one of the more popular books that I think is quite good is from my friend and colleague John Ratey, who's a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School; that's R-A-T-E-Y. He wrote the book "Spark" a few years back, and I think it's still very relevant.

Yeah, Morgan Housel, he has a couple of really good books. I actually like the second one more. They're both excellent, but the second one is called "The Art of Spending Money," which sounds like you're the rich guy telling people how to spend their money.

I love, love, love the book, "Naked Warrior."

Wonderful book, by the way, folks, is "The Prince of Medicine" about Galen, if you ever want to learn about how we learned about medicine back when it was truly barbaric.