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 "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
 "title": "The Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf",
 "podcast": "huberman-lab",
 "published_at": "2026-06-15",
 "speakers": [
  "Andy Stumpf",
  "Andrew Huberman"
 ],
 "summary": "Retired Navy SEAL, record-setting wingsuit base jumper, and author of Drownproof Andy Stumpf joins Andrew Huberman for a wide-ranging conversation on mindset and the specific small daily actions that compound into a successful life. They open with the 'influence versus concern' exercise — writing down what occupies your waking hours, splitting it into what you can control (essentially only yourself) versus what you can't — and a shared diagnosis of social media as a 'low resolution' addiction that you're aware of even while doing it. Stumpf recounts the appeal of wingsuiting as a mental reset that put him fully in the present and produced a months-long 'post-flow' calm, frames the Dunning-Kruger curve as what kills experienced jumpers, and candidly describes his hardest life experience — a contentious two-year divorce and an 18-month estrangement from his oldest son. The episode's spine is his repeated mantra: 'pick the choice, as often as possible, that is slightly more difficult,' illustrated by toilet paper, laundry, and dishes, which Huberman ties to growth of the anterior mid-cingulate cortex. They close with a frank, emotional discussion of the rising suicide rate in special-operations communities and beyond, the role of pre-service trauma and alcohol, and reflections on money, the price of success, and saying no.",
 "topics": [
  {
   "name": "Influence versus concern — the core mental-frame exercise",
   "timestamp": "4:58",
   "summary": "Stumpf describes a tool from his book (which he says is not his own creation): draw a line down a page, list your concerns on one side and what you can influence on the other. The realization is that almost everything is concern and the only thing you can directly control is yourself."
  },
  {
   "name": "Social media as the 'ultimate' low-resolution addiction",
   "timestamp": "11:27",
   "summary": "Stumpf and a SEAL friend (Chad Wright) competed to cut phone screen time to under an hour a day, then both reverted within months. Huberman argues social media is uniquely addictive because it's low-resolution enough that you stay aware you're wasting time while doing it, unlike intoxication."
  },
  {
   "name": "The next generation, alcohol, and cannabis risk",
   "timestamp": "23:38",
   "summary": "Stumpf is optimistic his three kids' generation is pushing back on both phones and alcohol. Huberman compares anti-smoking campaigns and weighs alcohol versus cannabis risk, flagging high-potency cannabis and psychosis in predisposed young males."
  },
  {
   "name": "Ice baths, saunas, and adrenaline as a training tool",
   "timestamp": "32:52",
   "summary": "Huberman defends deliberate cold and heat as reliable, safe ways to learn to operate in a highly adrenalized state, with carryover benefits, while cautioning against cold immediately after resistance training."
  },
  {
   "name": "Wingsuiting, base jumping, and the mental reset",
   "timestamp": "36:07",
   "summary": "Stumpf explains the mechanics of wingsuiting and base jumping and why he did it: not for adrenaline but for a months-long mental clarity ('post-flow') that made him a better father, husband, and businessman, until the risk no longer justified the reward."
  },
  {
   "name": "Dunning-Kruger and getting away with it versus nailing it",
   "timestamp": "58:16",
   "summary": "Stumpf argues the Dunning-Kruger curve, not novices, is the most dangerous phase in wingsuiting — experienced jumpers who 'got away with it' rather than 'nailed it,' citing his friend Alex's death."
  },
  {
   "name": "Divorce, estrangement, and writing about the hardest thing",
   "timestamp": "1:02:53",
   "summary": "Stumpf names a contentious two-year divorce and an 18-month loss of contact with his oldest son as the hardest experiences of his life — harder than being a SEAL — and explains why he put them in the book: to show people they're not alone."
  },
  {
   "name": "The post-flow state and time perception",
   "timestamp": "1:24:24",
   "summary": "Stumpf and Huberman explore why intense flow experiences seem to LOWER (not raise) stress threshold and strip away meaningless stress for months afterward, and theorize it recalibrates time perception and the ability to make insightful connections."
  },
  {
   "name": "Toilet paper, micro-discipline, and the slightly harder choice",
   "timestamp": "1:31:41",
   "summary": "Using his kids' toilet-paper habits, laundry, and dishes, Stumpf argues 'it always takes longer to do it wrong' and that micro-discipline — picking the slightly harder choice repeatedly — is the engine of success; Huberman connects it to anterior mid-cingulate cortex growth."
  },
  {
   "name": "The intestinal-blockage story and talking about pain",
   "timestamp": "1:49:28",
   "summary": "Stumpf recounts an intestinal blockage requiring emergency surgery — the worst pain of his life, worse than being shot — including a genetic abnormality that blunts opiate response, and concludes that being open about pain made it better."
  },
  {
   "name": "Suicide in special operations and beyond",
   "timestamp": "2:00:45",
   "summary": "A frank discussion of the rising suicide rate, the gap between how high performers view themselves and how others see them (via his friend Dave), pre-service trauma, alcohol, isolation, and the limits of current solutions including Ibogaine."
  },
  {
   "name": "Money, the price of success, and saying no",
   "timestamp": "2:35:26",
   "summary": "Stumpf shares his current life (coffee shop, podcast, jiu-jitsu) and excitement at not knowing what's next, his view that money buffers stress but doesn't buy happiness, and a warning that achieving every goal at all costs can net you 'everything and nothing.'"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "name": "Andy Stumpf",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Guest; retired Navy SEAL, record wingsuit base jumper, author of Drownproof, sharing mindset and daily-discipline tools."
  },
  {
   "name": "Andrew Huberman",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Host; Stanford neuroscientist interviewing Stumpf and adding the neuroscience framing (anterior mid-cingulate cortex, stress, time perception)."
  },
  {
   "name": "mindset",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "The mental frame and daily actions to succeed — the episode's central theme."
  },
  {
   "name": "influence versus concern",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "The core exercise: separating what you can control (yourself) from what you can't."
  },
  {
   "name": "micro-discipline",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Picking the slightly harder choice repeatedly; the 'small stuff nobody sees' that compounds into success."
  },
  {
   "name": "social media",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Discussed as a low-resolution, optional addiction that occupies the 'concern' column."
  },
  {
   "name": "wingsuiting",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's former sport; the source of a months-long mental reset and a case study in risk."
  },
  {
   "name": "base jumping",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Single-parachute fixed-object jumping; the highest-consequence form of the sport Stumpf practiced."
  },
  {
   "name": "flow state",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "The narrowed, present-moment focus Stumpf accessed and its 'post-flow' tail of clarity."
  },
  {
   "name": "Dunning-Kruger effect",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Framed as the deadliest phase in wingsuiting — when you think you have it dialed."
  },
  {
   "name": "anterior mid-cingulate cortex",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Brain region Huberman links to tenacity, will, and the benefit of doing things you don't want to do."
  },
  {
   "name": "suicide",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Major late-episode topic; rising rates in special operations and the general population."
  },
  {
   "name": "alcohol",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Discussed as social lubricant, generational decline, and a CNS depressant tied to suicide risk."
  },
  {
   "name": "cannabis",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Weighed against alcohol; psychosis risk in predisposed young males."
  },
  {
   "name": "ice bath",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Deliberate cold exposure as an adrenaline-training and stress-threshold tool."
  },
  {
   "name": "sauna",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Deliberate heat exposure paired with cold; Huberman is heat-tolerant."
  },
  {
   "name": "Ibogaine",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Psychedelic treatment for addiction/PTSD in veterans; helped many but not Stumpf's friend Dave."
  },
  {
   "name": "Drownproof",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's book, the prompt for the episode; source of the influence/concern and toilet-paper tools."
  },
  {
   "name": "Dave",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's late friend and a 'standard' team guy who died by suicide; central to the mental-health discussion."
  },
  {
   "name": "Chad Wright",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "SEAL friend and endurance athlete who did the screen-time-reduction challenge with Stumpf."
  },
  {
   "name": "Alex",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's wingsuiting friend who died; cited as an example of the Dunning-Kruger curve."
  },
  {
   "name": "Black Rifle Coffee",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf owns the first Black Rifle coffee shop in Montana, in Kalispell."
  },
  {
   "name": "jiu-jitsu",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's current practice and an example of an unmasterable activity and a present-moment flow access point."
  },
  {
   "name": "Navy SEALs",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf's former community; source of mantras like 'how you do anything is how you do everything.'"
  },
  {
   "name": "anterior mid-cingulate cortex growth",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Huberman cites Joe Parvizi's stimulation work and superager research."
  },
  {
   "name": "Joe Parvizi",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Stanford neurosurgeon whose stimulation of the anterior mid-cingulate cortex produced the 'storm coming, lean into it' report."
  },
  {
   "name": "Morgan Housel",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Author of The Art of Spending Money, cited on the psychology of money."
  },
  {
   "name": "Naval Ravikant",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Quoted: one reason to win the game is so you can stop playing it."
  },
  {
   "name": "William McRaven",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Referenced for the 'make your bed' speech, reframed as discipline in small things."
  },
  {
   "name": "Ambien",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Sleep medication SEALs relied on, available unrestricted; Stumpf flags overuse as unhealthy."
  },
  {
   "name": "goal-setting",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Stumpf would rather people fall short of a giant goal and be fulfilled than achieve it and have nothing."
  },
  {
   "name": "money",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Debated as something that buffers stress and buys time but does not buy happiness."
  },
  {
   "name": "Kalispell, Montana",
   "type": "place",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Where Stumpf lives and owns his coffee shop."
  }
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "You have no control over what happens to you, but complete control over how you respond to it — which is where agency comes from.",
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   "timestamp": "5:10",
   "quote": "I have no control over what happens to me in my life, but I have absolute and complete and total control over how I respond to it."
  },
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   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
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   "quote": "I have the choice as to whether or not I interface with the algorithm. And that's where the power"
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   "timestamp": "14:55",
   "quote": "It says everything you need to know about the platform."
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   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
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   "quote": "it's low resolution enough that your brain circuits can get attached to it and keep doing it while you're monitoring yourself"
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   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
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   "quote": "I fear this much more than I fear AI, to be honest. Much much more."
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   "quote": "I think we're going to be okay, because I think that generation now is really viewing these platforms with a little bit more of a wary eye"
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   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "When kids realize they are being manipulated by big platforms, leveraging that against the industry can drive healthy pushback — as it did with anti-smoking.",
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   "timestamp": "25:51",
   "quote": "when kids realize and teens realize that they're being manipulated, they'll push back in a way that can be really good for them"
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   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
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   "quote": "alcohol seems less risky to me"
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   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
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   "timestamp": "33:23",
   "quote": "I don't know of anything that is both safe and reliably can give you that adrenaline spike in a way that you can start to learn to work with what it's like to be in a highly adrenalized state"
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Anyone going into a base jump should be scared; if you're not scared, you're not paying attention and should stop.",
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   "timestamp": "52:24",
   "quote": "if you are not scared in that environment, I would recommend you stop that activity immediately because you are not paying attention"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "The wingsuit base-jumping fatality rate is high; it can be done as safely as possible but never made safe.",
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   "timestamp": "57:20",
   "quote": "I would never tell anybody that it is a safe activity, but I think you can do it as safely as possible. There's still immense residual risk."
  },
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   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "The Dunning-Kruger curve — experienced jumpers who think they have it dialed — is the most dangerous aspect of wingsuiting, more than novices.",
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   "timestamp": "58:16",
   "quote": "I think the Dunning-Kruger effect is always the most dangerous aspect of it."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Surviving a risky jump and calling it 'nailed it' is dangerous self-deception; the real question is whether you nailed it or got away with it.",
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   "subjects": [
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   "timestamp": "58:16",
   "quote": "But did you nail it or did you get away with it? And that's what kills people."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "If his kids wanted to wingsuit knowing the real risk, he would prepare and scare them with reality but not stand between them and the choice.",
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   "timestamp": "1:02:07",
   "quote": "if they wanted to make that choice, I don't feel like I have the right to stand in between them and that desire"
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
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   "timestamp": "1:03:15",
   "quote": "Hardest thing I've ever done in my life."
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "It is a mistake to think high-performers like SEALs are not normal people or are impervious to the things that damage anyone.",
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   "timestamp": "1:06:47",
   "quote": "it is such a mistake to think that there are people out there who have everything figured out or that are impervious to the things that are damaging to you as the person"
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Intense flow experiences seem to LOWER his stress threshold and strip away meaningless stress, rather than raise it.",
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   "timestamp": "1:26:08",
   "quote": "if it just raised your stress threshold, I would have just continued to do riskier and riskier behaviors, but at the end, I feel like it lowers it and just strips away the BS stress"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Finding a flow-access activity — art, jiu-jitsu, meditation, ice bath — will change your life even if no one can describe what it is.",
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   "timestamp": "1:26:08",
   "quote": "I am here to tell you, it will change your life if you can find your way into that space. It really will."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "It always takes longer to do something wrong than to do it right the first time — the case against everyday shortcuts.",
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   "timestamp": "1:31:41",
   "quote": "It always takes longer to do it wrong, is the bottom line."
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   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Success comes from micro-discipline — the little things nobody sees — not visible macro-discipline.",
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   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
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    "mindset"
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   "timestamp": "1:36:12",
   "quote": "it's micro-discipline. They can make it seem as if you have this macro-discipline, but that's not actually what it is. It's the little things that nobody sees."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Make the slightly harder choice more often than the slightly easier one — that, over time, is the juice.",
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   "timestamp": "1:35:16",
   "quote": "Make the slightly harder one more often than the slightly easier one."
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Discipline is never by reflex; it is always by will.",
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   "timestamp": "1:36:12",
   "quote": "I don't think it's ever by reflex. I think it's always by will."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "The benefit of an act for the anterior mid-cingulate cortex comes specifically from doing something you do NOT want to do in that moment.",
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   "timestamp": "1:43:48",
   "quote": "it's not the thing, it's the thing you don't want to do"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Being open and honest about pain — physical or internal — tends to surround you with people willing to help and makes it better, not worse.",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "1:50:36",
   "quote": "I don't think you could make it worse by talking about it."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Ending your own life is an irrational decision that the person arrives at as their only seemingly rational solution.",
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   "subjects": [
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   "timestamp": "2:17:31",
   "quote": "somehow, people are arriving at an irrational decision and considering it to be the only rational solution"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "More than half of the guys he has talked to brought a 'full seabag' of pre-service trauma into the military, which compounds with service stress.",
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   "subjects": [
    "suicide",
    "Navy SEALs"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:21:38",
   "quote": "this trending past 50% of the guys brought a lot of stuff with them"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Understanding the root of suicide will not come from a strictly scientific or psychological frame; it requires accepting a bigger picture.",
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   "subjects": [
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   "timestamp": "2:26:41",
   "quote": "understanding the root of the problem is not going to come from a strictly scientific psychological understanding. It's just my belief"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Money cannot buy happiness but can buffer certain forms of stress — Huberman explicitly disagrees with the claim that beyond a threshold money doesn't help.",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "2:48:44",
   "quote": "money cannot buy happiness, but it certainly can buffer certain kinds of stress"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "He would rather people fall short of a massive lifetime goal and be fulfilled than carve out their whole life, achieve it, and have nothing.",
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   "subjects": [
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   ],
   "timestamp": "2:44:53",
   "quote": "I would rather have people arrive a little bit under this massive lifetime goal and be a really happy, really fulfilled, really enriched person"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "An unmasterable activity like jiu-jitsu — where the most experienced realize how little they know — is the key to staying mentally young.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "jiu-jitsu"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:47:13",
   "quote": "I think that's the key to staying at least mentally as young as possible, constantly learning new stuff."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "prediction": "The SEAL community's suicide numbers will eclipse its combat losses since 2001, as has already happened in the Green Beret community.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "suicide",
    "Navy SEALs"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:03:29",
   "quote": "I don't know where the SEAL community is with that, but I bet you they're close. The numbers will eclipse, for sure."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "prediction": "His teenage daughter, currently heavily attached to her phone, will eventually come around to a healthier relationship with screens like his older sons did.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "23:38",
   "quote": "So I think she will get there as well too"
  }
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  {
   "statement": "Stumpf served as a Navy SEAL and later a member of the Red Bull High Performance Team as a wingsuiter, setting two world records.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf",
    "wingsuiting"
   ],
   "value": "two world records",
   "timestamp": "0:34",
   "quote": "He set two world records, wing suiting.",
   "source": "Andrew Huberman"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Huberman's first book, Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body, launches September 15th.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andrew Huberman"
   ],
   "value": "September 15th launch",
   "timestamp": "2:24",
   "quote": "The launch date is September 15th.",
   "source": "Andrew Huberman"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf got his daily phone screen time down to 30 minutes in the last week of January by forcing usage onto his laptop.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf",
    "social media"
   ],
   "value": "30 minutes/day",
   "timestamp": "11:42",
   "quote": "the last week of January for me, I got mine down to 30 minutes",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf had about 3,000 skydiving jumps before putting on a wingsuit for the first time.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf",
    "wingsuiting"
   ],
   "value": "3,000 jumps",
   "timestamp": "37:44",
   "quote": "I think I had 3,000 jumps before I put a wingsuit on the first time.",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Automatic activation devices (AADs) have saved hundreds of skydivers' lives by firing the reserve for an unconscious or inattentive jumper.",
   "subjects": [
    "base jumping"
   ],
   "value": "hundreds of saves",
   "timestamp": "39:54",
   "quote": "automatic activation devices, have saved hundreds of lives",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "The Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls is the one place in the US where base jumping is legal 24/7/365.",
   "subjects": [
    "base jumping"
   ],
   "value": "24-7-365",
   "timestamp": "41:47",
   "quote": "It's the Perrine Bridge up in Twin Falls, which is where I learned.",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf's first base jump off the earth was Monte Brento in Italy.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf",
    "base jumping"
   ],
   "timestamp": "41:47",
   "quote": "my first jump off the Earth was Monte Brento in Italy",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Wingsuiters flying low over terrain can reach roughly 120 miles per hour face-first.",
   "subjects": [
    "wingsuiting"
   ],
   "value": "~120 mph",
   "timestamp": "54:17",
   "quote": "I'd say you could get them to about 120 Face first.",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf lost contact with his oldest son for 18 months during and after his divorce.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf"
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   "value": "18 months",
   "timestamp": "1:10:24",
   "quote": "I lost contact with my oldest son for 18 months.",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
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   "statement": "Stumpf has a genetic blood abnormality, shared with his sister, that prevents him from processing opiates normally, so morphine does nothing for him.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:52:02",
   "quote": "I don't process opiates the same way as people do, so morphine in me doesn't even do anything",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf required emergency surgery for an intestinal blockage caused by a loop of scar tissue cinching his intestine.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf"
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   "timestamp": "1:52:02",
   "quote": "I had an intestinal blockage which required emergency surgery.",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
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   "statement": "The Green Beret community has lost more people to suicide than to combat operations since 2001.",
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   "timestamp": "2:03:10",
   "quote": "The Green Beret community has now lost more people to suicide than combat operations since 2001",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf"
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  {
   "statement": "Joe Parvizi's electrical stimulation of the anterior mid-cingulate cortex made every patient report feeling a coming storm they wanted to lean into.",
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   "timestamp": "1:43:48",
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   "source": "Andrew Huberman"
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   "statement": "The anterior mid-cingulate cortex grows in volume when people successfully diet or add cardio they dislike, and its growth is the defining feature of 'superagers.'",
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   "quote": "growth of this structure is the defining feature of what are called superagers",
   "source": "Andrew Huberman"
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   "statement": "Stumpf owns the first Black Rifle coffee shop in Montana, located in Kalispell, and is close friends with the founder.",
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    "Andy Stumpf",
    "Kalispell, Montana"
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   "statement": "Stumpf quit his post-military strength-and-conditioning job 16 months in without another job lined up and sold things on Craigslist.",
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   "timestamp": "2:39:41",
   "quote": "Until that ended 16 months later when I quit without having another job lined up whatsoever and then went into the garage and started selling things on Craigslist",
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   "speaker": "Andy Stumpf",
   "timestamp": "0:00",
   "quote": "Pick the choice, as often as possible, that is slightly more difficult.",
   "why": "The episode's thesis stated in the cold open — the mantra everything else hangs on."
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   "timestamp": "0:00",
   "quote": "To me, it's the small stuff that nobody sees that makes the biggest difference in the world.",
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   "speaker": "Andy Stumpf",
   "timestamp": "58:16",
   "quote": "But did you nail it or did you get away with it? And that's what kills people.",
   "why": "A memorable, transferable line Huberman calls out as worth stamping into everyone's brain."
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   "timestamp": "1:17:02",
   "quote": "Then you realize they are out there making shit up on the fly, doing the best they can with the data set that they have in front of them",
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   "speaker": "Andy Stumpf",
   "timestamp": "2:35:54",
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   "speaker": "Andy Stumpf",
   "timestamp": "1:34:32",
   "quote": "But what if you make that choice 100 times in your day? You're telling me it's gonna look the same as it did yesterday? No way in hell.",
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