How Your Thoughts Are Built & How You Can Shape Them | Dr. Jennifer Groh
Andrew Huberman
Nov 10, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Utilize bone conduction headphones for safe exercise
Bone conduction headphones deliver sound via vibration to the bone in front of your ear, leaving your ears open to hear your surroundings for safety during exercise.
Utilize separate phone for social media to reduce distraction
To manage distraction, you can use a separate, old phone exclusively for social media apps to create physical and logistical friction that prevents impulsive use.
Understand brain's mechanism to manage hearing while speaking
Your brain has an active mechanism to turn down the volume of your hearing just before you speak so you are not overwhelmed by the sound of your own voice.
Address hearing loss to mitigate dementia risk
Hearing loss is correlated with dementia, possibly because less sensory information coming in causes the brain to start turning off circuits.
Visualize thoughts through sensory simulations
The theory of thought is that when you think of something, like a cat, your brain runs small simulations in your sensory areas of what a cat looks, sounds, and even smells like.
Utilize sound echoes to gauge distance
Your brain unconsciously uses the delay between a direct sound and its reflections off surfaces to calculate how far away the sound source is.
Utilize vision to induce hyper-focus in chickens
You can induce a state of hyper-focus in a chicken by drawing a line and placing its beak on it, demonstrating how powerfully vision can drive brain state.
Implement interval training for cognitive tasks
For difficult cognitive tasks like writing, you can try a strategy of producing a small amount of work, like one sentence, and then taking a short, deliberate break.
Utilize satellite communicator for relaxation in the wilderness
Using a satellite communicator like a Zoleo to stay minimally connected in the wilderness can paradoxically lead to more relaxation than being completely out of touch.
Integrate visual and auditory information through eardrum movement
Your eardrum moves in a precise, wave-like pattern with every fast eye movement, which may be the first step in integrating visual and auditory information.
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