The Perfect Summary Podcast

Dr. David Fajgenbaum explains how approved drugs can treat other diseases, and how one saved his own life after five near-fatal relapses.

Retired Navy SEAL DJ Shipley shares his daily routine, fitness standards, combat losses, near-fatal injuries and how ibogaine treatment changed him.

Spotify's Daniel Ek tells David Senra why happiness trails impact, how trust and self-knowledge shape a company, and why he manages energy, not time.

Steven Pressfield explains Resistance, the self-sabotage that guards your most important work, and the professional habits he uses to beat it at 82.

Artist David Choe tells Andrew Huberman how shame fueled his art and addictions, and what a decade of recovery has taught him.

James Clear on making habits easy to start, showing up on bad days, identity-based habits, and shaping your environment.

Psychiatrist Dr. K explains how to unlearn harmful patterns using distress tolerance, ego awareness and meditation.

Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how to turn threat into challenge, protect your cells from chronic stress, and drop the rope on what you can't change.

Six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates on brief, brutal training, an honest view of steroids, life after winning, psychedelics and cannabis.

Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.

Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore movement as a whole-life practice: play, failure, squatting, spinal waves, vision, touch and variety.

Jocko Willink and Andrew Huberman on creating energy through action, leading through wins and losses, grief, suicide, and learning to detach.

Sam Harris explains why meditation's real prize is seeing through the self, how it differs from psychedelics, and why he quit Twitter.

Physicist Bernardo Huberman, Andrew's father, on following curiosity across fields, explaining relativity, chaos and quantum internet, and living with joy.

Elite sprint coach Stu McMillan explains why adults should skip, how gait changes with speed, and why the ability to sprint may be the best health marker.

Ex-SEAL Andy Stumpf shares the influence-vs-concern exercise, why to choose the slightly harder option, and hard lessons on divorce and suicide.

Psychologist Paul Eastwick on why mate value fades as people get to know each other, what men and women really want, and what keeps couples together.

Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore play versus discipline, exposing will, transition states and refining body awareness.

Cesar Millan explains how silence, calm and confidence, structured walks and affection-last habits create calm dogs and better humans.

UCLA memory scientist Alan Castel on why errors help learning, how memory reshapes itself, and what superagers do differently.

Caltech's Ralph Adolphs on what emotions are, why faces mislead us, and trainable regulation tools like ice baths and mental stillness.

Arthur Brooks explains happiness as enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning, and shares tools to spot your idols and live with more purpose.

Rick Rubin explains how to access creativity by noticing clues, trusting your taste, working in phases, and staying fully present with the work.

Cosmologist Brian Keating on how stargazing shaped time, why astrology fails, his near-Nobel retraction, and whether we are alone.

Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer explains how noticing, uncertainty and mind-body unity can change healing, aging, stress and daily life.

Chess prodigy turned martial arts champion and coach Josh Waitzkin shares how loss, fear, empty space and a daily "most important question" drive learning.

Dr. Becky Kennedy redefines guilt, explains frustration tolerance and repair, and shares sturdy-leadership tools for parents, partners and bosses.

Jordan Peterson and Andrew Huberman link brain circuits, biblical stories and prayer to addiction, purpose, and why responsibility is the real adventure.

Yale's Laurie Santos explains what really makes us happier: real-time connection, delight, contrast, time affluence, strengths and helping others.

Morgan Housel explains why money buys happiness indirectly, how independence beats status, and why comparison and identity trap us on a treadmill.