I can’t remember how I’d fairly recently discovered Andrew Huberman, the neuroscientist professor at Stanford who also had a podcast and a popular Instagram page with 6.2M followers, but I’m sure it was either from a friend or I stumbled across his stuff while searching for something about healthy lifestyle.
Either way, I found him. And I found him fascinating to watch and, like a lot of people, ate up his information like a plate of hyper-palatable health food (oxymoron).
One evening, before The NY Mag Story broke, I watched an Instagram Live that he was conducting, seemingly in an Uber on the way to an appointment or something.
I listened a bit as he answered question after question that viewers sent via IG message in rapid fire. He sounded so smart and so suave. I think it was the first time I’d actually seen him live, whereas before it was more reading of articles. I hadn’t even listened to his podcast yet.
And I noticed something almost immediately - and maybe it’s because I’ve had to see this in myself to recognize it: the guy couldn’t stick to his boundaries when it came to answering all of these questions. He’d answer a slew of things about exercise and medical conditions and sleep and sunshine, and then he’d say something like, “Okay, I can answer two more questions!”
And he’d go on and on and answer five and six and ten minutes later he was STILL TALKING! It got to a point where I had to go in order to get something else done!
Maybe he was excited about talking to his audience, I thought.
But I happened across another IG live maybe a week or so later, and he was doing it again. He kept saying, “Okay! I only have time for one more question!” And then he answered dozens more.
When the story broke about him being in “exclusive” relationships with six different women and none of them knew about each other, my mind went back to those shows where it may have sounded innocent enough - generous, even - for him to keep going with his question and answer schtick after telling his audience that he had to go.
But boundaries are clearly an issue for the guy.
Regardless, I’ve since gone back to start listening to his podcasts because NOW I want to hear more. This thing has stirred up so much controversy on the guy and how much you should really believe what all of these “podcast bros” put out there.
There’s so much more I have to say about how much this guy reminds me of my ex-fiance (the one who had girlfriends in every city that I didn’t know about), but my time is up for my morning writing and I gotta go work out…and then go get some sunshine when the sun rises because…Huberman said so!
Love,
GS
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