Episode #621
Aubrey Marcus
Books mentioned
The Rise of Superman
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The Hagakure
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:59:09 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Aubrey Marcus is a writer, entrepreneur, and adventurer who discusses brainwave states, supplements, cannabis, medical research, flow, breathing, hypnosis, and mental performance with Joe Rogan. The conversation also examines martial arts, psychedelics, attachment, tribalism, empathy, motivation, responsibility, consciousness, intentional communities, cultural change, and political polarization.
What they talked about
- Alpha Brain and cognitive enhancement
- Criminal justice system absurdities
- Father-son dynamics and Oedipal complex
- Diet, health, and functional medicine
- Guy Mezger's brain trauma and stroke
- Martial arts, mental toughness, and hypnosis
- Tribalism, empathy, and political division
- Artificial reality and simulation theory
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