Absolutely. Listen to that audience, dead silent, not even the annoying asshole coughing, they are intently listening. I've seen too comics and the pricks in the audience still talk amongst themselves.
This video is why we are so lucky to have TH-cam. Robert Sapolsky = many years of hard work and a brilliant mind = helping man grow up to be a better human being. I am just an average "Joe six-pack" and I get to benefit from one of the great people in this world. SOOOO lucky.
smrog, so cute! Please tell me you put just as much effort into the antagonistic muscles of your back. Otherwise, a six pack is emphasized by the 'Jock C-curve' posture model. Hips forward, shoulders pulled forward, great abdominal definition because of willful dehydration. Gyms need to put in big mirrors that show our backs and butts instead of just the front side; the pecs, the abs, the quads. Too much exercising a muscle group causes shortening of those muscles, thus the C curve. A professional will spot you out of a crowd and tell you where your workout is going wrong. Like moi!! Grins...fyi, tmi...I know! But, hard work does not make anyone brilliant nor the fittest. It takes perseverance, self questioning, time to read, to think, and most of all those first 5 years and possibly in-utero environmental/mental development that causes one to be able to use their 'quotient for intelligence'. To be able to think outside the box, NOT needing to follow some club, church, party affiliation, to be able to stand and think alone without mimicking those one thinks is superior. Robert was lucky (and unlucky) to have lived a life where operating out of the box worked for him. He most certainly 'worked' for that niche! I agree that we are so lucky to enjoy and learn from such top notch teachers! It is YOUR job in college to check out the professors/instructors that you are paying for...are they popular or are they making bucks for the University on research yet they HATE teaching. I loved making that latter type change their curriculum and teach others how to question and make their professors do their duty TEACHING. Very much fun. Hard to fall asleep in any class with this attitude! It is our responsibility to make more Robert Sapolsky's!! Just getting through a class to pass is such a waste of resources and money. It makes a difference when one puts themselves through school. What kid appreciates free stuff?
Only just discovered this guy and it’s an honour to be able to watch his lectures. Fiercely intelligent, knowledgeable, articulate, yet with sprinklings of good humoured playfulness. A true educator 👍
Robert Sapolsky is a phenomenal educator. His ability to transfer complex information to his listener in a entertaining way is worthy of a study in and of itself.
Discovered this man today and this is my exact thought! wonder if he has a biography. Would be amazing to understand how he developed into who he is today🙂
Part I - Sapolsky's speech 00:00 - 10:07 - introduction 10:08 - 14:00 - Selye's rats 14:00 - 18:40 - The stress response (inhibition of some less important processes) 18:40 - 20:20- Selye's theory - why it's not qute good? 20:20 - 23:14 - consequences of stress response (atrofy, diabetes, heart diseases - hypertension) 23:14 - 29:04 - type A personality 29:04 - 55:05 consequences of stress response (helicobacker pyroli and ulcers; growth and psychogenic dwarfism, the genesis of the Peter Pan; Libido and gonads, erection; immune system - stress and cancer; cognition and mood - hippocampus, depression, amygdala; idiopathic alopecia areata) 55:05 - 1:01:23 - coping with stress (study on rats - shock and frustration; role of warning and control; role of social economic status social isolation) Part II - discussion
Had never of him, this video is my introduction to him. 1. Did not want his talk to end. 2. Am in such a euphoric state just knowing how much of him i am now gonna listen to and get his insights. Thank you for this.
Hey Mr. Chaplin! I love your work! Though I'll admit... you lost me pretty solidly with the whole world war thing... Maybe the joke was just lost on me... Ah well, manners. Anyways, the rest of your work? Love it!
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself." Michel de Montaigne "If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were." Aldous Huxley "Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday." Robert M. Sapolsky
Dr. Sapolsky has restored my faith in the integrity of the scientific research community. He could have easily chosen a much more lucrative vocation manipulating the biochemistry of the mind but instead chose to apply his deep curiosity about behavior to the exposure of the nuts and bolts of what makes us act like humans. He makes the unfathomable almost simplistic without being condescending or superfluous and if that isn't enough he shares his life's work like a neighbor shares a lawnmower. The man is a virtual rock in earth shoes.
I love that he's so intellectually honest. Always willing to provide an answer, but also humble enough to flag that there are areas where he's not a researcher and more of a speculator. That's real integrity.
The last sentence - He wished, he was less ambitious. When I think about it now - ambition caused lots of hard life and stress for me. I might have messed up my health putting myself into huge stress. And the result in the end might not be worth it, so yes. Very great advice!! At least for me.
He is the most interesting person to listen to. I am now listening to his videos almost every day for weeks now. Nothing he ever says is boring. This is entertaintment and knowledge in their best form.
omg I love this guy..Not many can pull this off....making lectures super interesting and educational, with tons of laugh out loud moments. He's a legend
So thankful for this. This is simply great to have. I envy our generation for having such an easy access to these type of contents. Greetings from Argentina.
This was an good video to watch that helped me think about why I am chronically sick with headaches and an audio immune problem. I am so young but don't really handle stress well. Sapolskys lecture was amazing and I feel lucky to have seen and heard him speak.
وللاسف هو سبب تخلفنا نحن العرب انه لايوجد اهتمام بترجمة كل جديد في الابحاث--ده غير اساتذتنا في الجمعات وطريقة تدريسهم الغبيه----وطبعا دراسة العلوم باللغه الانجليزيه اللي لايجيدها الكثير من زمايلنا اللي لايقلون كفاءه عن اقرانهم في الجامعات الاخري
I know there's umpteen thousand lectures, symposiums, documentaries, podcasts, et cetera on here featuring Dr. Sapolsky, but man would I love to go and see him live. It's be as cool as seeing Barbara McClintock with her corn. Many thanks for uploading this. I blame this guy totally for sparking my interest in science, and I think it's wonderful that people have made his features accessible to high school drop outs like me. Cheers!
I am proud of being a high school dropout I know that sounds odd.My father died when I was 16 I had no other family to speak of. A family friend , an atty offered me a job at min wage as his receptionist.There I learned to file, type wills, deeds and other legal documents. I learned some about law and lots of legal terminology.Then I became a hospital admissions clerk at night and after 8 pm I had 3 hours of free time just waiting for any late admissions. In those days security was not as tight as now. The doctors medical,library was not locked so I would bring down a couple of medical books on diagnoses I had typed in to read ... I was exposed to medical procedures, surgeries. I booked operatingrooms, labs,.and xrays for the following day from drs who called them in to me usually on newly admitted patients. So I learned medical.terminology and a few things about medicine. Next I worked at a city medical center admitting patients Tufts NE Med CEnter in BOston. Upstairs there was a rehab hospital for para and quadraplegics. There was a female psychologist on staff. I got.to know her. There were no female doctors in the 1960s that I had met...they existed but were few and far between.The more I learned about what the psychologist did the more curious I became.She encouraged me to take the GED you had to be 21 back then to take it...I took it and passed. Then she told me to take the SATS. I did and took her my scores. She said wow you should go to college...I had scored in the 98th percentile on the verbal..I was an avid reader...my math was less than stellar. She said try the community college. I went talked with the registrar and he said if you take a math course and make a B I will let you in. The Vietnam War was raging, males were desperate to go to collee to get draft deferments enrollment was tight. I continued to work and took a math course at night. I got a B. So the next semester I had applied for a job on campus as a secretary and got it because I knew medical.terminology ...secretary to the new Dean of Allied Health.I was able to work my schedule.of classes around my job thanks to him. I loved psych...I made deans list and finished with a 3.8 average. I then went to a four year college graduated with honors took the GRE got admitted to the 2 grad schools.I applied to. I chose one and got my masters and PhD. This journey took ten years but I graduated debt free working on campuses being a teaching assistant, working on research grants etc.. I became a PhD clinical.psychologist and an assistant then associate then full.professor...later a college administrstor and at 50.was.offered a college presidency. I chose to turn it down and instead to sail with my husband in the Caribbean...I knew my window to do that was short, no one STARTS that kind of sailing at 65 sail handling by that age is just too physically difficult, especially for a woman and I was ready for a new adventure.I had lived under my means all my career saving and investing so my husband and I had the funds to retire at 50.and 55. Had I not been a poor student all those years I likely would notmhave savedmso much amd invested so well,,,tech stocks in the 90s.By then among many other college programs I ran I was setting up tech labs chosing software courses to teach and knew what tech products were selling on a large scale to businesses and industry...not inside info but sales info which guided my personal investing. I tell you this to say you can do pretty much anything you want to do.Had I gone to college at 18 I would not have had the drive , motivation and maturity to do that long haul learning. Many can and do but I was not ready at 18. Those years in the workforce precollege were highly motivating for me..Most college students are trying to make a social life, find a mate and are distracted by those things while they are college...I wasnt . I knew it was my chance to make a different life for myself. You may want instead to start a business or do other things in life and you can learn anything you need in many ways. Some professions are closed off without a traditional education but so much ISNT. You can educate yourself quite well online. I just found a marketing course online free from the Wharton School.of Business for a young 29 yr old man with an 8th grade education in Guatemala.He wants to learn business and was curious about marketing..he worked hard to learn English and is now fluent...he is very bright but had to go to work at 14 to help support his large family. He has all the ingredients of a successful business owner...he already has a successful one just on a small scale. You will.realize one day thatbyou GOT things developmentally from dropping out...even if just maturity. Build from where you are in the direction you want to go..dont compare yourself with others just be yourself and move in YOUR direction... Sybil.Francis PhD clinical.psychology 1979
One needs to be careful when listening to a charismatic, eloquent, educated (more than us) speaker. Always listen critically. Don't give up your own mind to them. I am not saying anything Dr S said is incorrect in the slightest, but I see several comments that attribute his rightness to how much you were entertained by the interaction.
I definitely agree. I think it is clear in his lecture series that Dr. Sapolsky understands that as well. Many of his explanations begin with a twist, where he starts along the 'obvious' explanation, then proceeds to dismantle it. At least in my experience, this has lead me to always be second guessing his explanations, trying to think ahead and catch him out before he points out the twist. Actually, it's rather similar to the Veritasium approach. To me, this shows that he has a good broad knowledge of the subject, and especially that his understanding is self-consistent - evidenced by how he can deftly shift between different views/interpretations during an explanation (such as in his Human Behavioural Biology lecture series). I find the contrary is that if someone sticks tightly to a script, it is often a sign that they have learnt by rote - rather than through actual understanding.
Dr. Sap's The Man - one of the best, smartest intellectuals in the US. Listen to his Stanford Lectures (there's 20). Pitched slightly higher than this but well worth it. D.A., JD, NYC
Prof Sapolsky has changed my perspectives on how to deal with my long-term stress/depression, and I have been applying his insights in the last couple of weeks with very good results really :) Thank you Prof Sapolsky!
Fascinating and superbly delivered, as always. Initially ditched the Q & A but returned another day and was blown away by the importance and clarity of Sapolsky's answers.
I never get tired of listening to dr. Sapolsky. He really knows a ton and cares a ton and not to mention what a pleasant down-to-earth humorous human being he is. I can never thank him enough for the joyful and valuable lessons.
I do wish someone had asked about his thoughts on the recent achievements of psychedelics for use in easing depression and improving overall well being. Would love to hear what he has to say as that is a longer term solution to antidepressants with substantially fewer and less serious side effects.
I can say that I’ve suffered from depression for most of my life. When I retired from law enforcement, my depression worsened significantly. On a whim, I tried marijuana edibles and they were transformative in the treatment of my depression. I can’t speak on psychedelics, but I think it’s worth a look.
I saw this growth change in kids that I worked with at school in the UK. They left school, got away from their parents and the shot up, filled out and became unrecognisable x
Okay, so when our crazy species inevitably starts cloning people, can we please make like a billion Robert Sapolskys? This man's mind is breath of fresh air. Just received "Behave" in the mail today and can't wait to dig in.
MIT students made Norman Bates AI, and people made an AI clone of Salvador Dali for the Salvador Dali Museum using Deepfakes. Bad choices in my opinion. An AI clone of Winston Churchill, and an AI clone of Robert Sapolsky, and an AI clone of George Carlin have my vote.
@@bluejay6904 If Winston Churchill were alive today, he would have charged with war crimes. Since it is not that practical to run any simulation on a live psychotic mind, Norman Bates AI may have some merits in research purposes. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
My mother-in-law is 96 years old. She still cares for herself and has all the marbles she was born with -- plus many more. She smoked for 76 of those years. Three packs a day. She never exercised, never worried about her diet, and worried herself sick over her children. Somebody ought to study her before she dies... phenomenal.
thank you so much robert, you literally save my time to realize that the most important thing in one's life is social support. and that being too ambitious is unnecessary.
Sapolsky has got a gift for being an outstanding lecturer. It would be amazing to take one of his classes. I bet they all fill up the second that registration opens, and I can’t imagine his popularity at Stanford as a professor.
Just brilliant. Thank you so much for posting this incredible lecture that's so monumentally important for all humans living in the dark about themselves and those around them.
I would love to be in that auditorium! Great sense of humour mixed with knowledge in science. A phenomenal lecturer. I feel like I can watch this over and over without getting bored or tired.
I would love to hear him speak about psychosomatic pain. I've had a headache for 6 years :< I've forgotten what it feels like to not be in pain, and one of the side effects is constant stress. A few months ago I went for 3 days without sleep, for the last 3 weeks I've not been getting to sleep until sunrise and when I'm in stressful situations I end up hallucinating before sleep. not much pops up for how to deal with this pain, medical people often don't know about it, and when they do, they have no advice. But from what I've seen of Robert's video about depression, he started talking about the feelings of psychological pain having real biological representations - I'd like to hear more.
[From Prof. Justin Rhodes] "Acute stress enhances the immune system, but chronic stress impairs the immune system. High levels of glucocoroticoids (stress hormones) kill lymphocytes (white blood cells that are an important part of your immune system). A great way to realize this is to consider that the drugs that are used by doctors to reduce the immune system (such as to treat an autoimmune disease, organ transplant to prevent rejection, or severe allergic reactions) is to inject synthetic stress hormones into the system such as dexamethasone, epinephrine, hydrocortisone. So chronic psychological stress, worrying all the time reduces the immune system which allows the bacterial infections to take hold. Also, stress diverts energy and blood away from the gut, so the gut has fewer energy to fight off the infections."
@Pike Fisherman You are missing what is important I think that you should take away for information. The mind and body are ONE. The body affects the mind and what the mind thinks affects the body. Philosophy is never as good as learning about how your own body works! The trick is to reduce STRESS. How to not allow little things to ever become stressful. There is a threshold for each individual, each species of animal. Once at that threshold one becomes literally deaf, dumb and blind. Gardening, getting your hands in the soil, some great crafty hobby, art! learning something new, taking a class to learn something new...powerful. Grins. You will learn that we are not in 'control' of our minds. Perhaps Buddhist teachers who have spent their entire lives rising above the trite life stuff feel like they are in control but I gotta tell you, we will never be in control, we should never want to be in full control. Lots to be said for the skill of going with the flow?
College isn't about intelligence. it's more about having the financial resources to get in. A friend from high school did his undergrad in San Jose State and got his master's degree in engineering from Stanford. He passed away from a sudden heart attack at age 35.
Great talk as always from Sapolsky. Super interesting to me, that at the end he would like to say to his earlier self "to be less ambitious" and that this was linked to how he used to think that the greatest determinants of psycho social health was social dominance and hierarchy and now knows that things like social support and personality stuff was far far more important. I think the link here is that for most go-getters ambition is linked to social dominance and hierarchy, and that he doesn't think as much focus should be placed in that. Instead we should be focusing on building strong relationships and developing ourselves into well-rounded decent people. I couldn't agree more. So fortunate to have stuff like this on youtube. Videos like this really do highlight how some youtube videos we all watch are really just not worth the time when there's things like this out there that can fundamentally reshape our lives and perceptions
@@DelsinM He's not saying that you should live in poverty or whatever. But more saying that forming good relationships are a better path to being happy than money and success.
I think another bit of advice I've heard is to be specific in ambition. A lot of the stress of ambition is the feeling that you should be a vague concept of successful. A lot of the stress of working out how to get what you want is working out what you want, what that means, and how you'd get there. A lot of success is to take certain things into your control and that means developing relationships and management of stress and management of your pursuits. If you're alone, you lack stress management support, you don't have a network to help you succeed, and you don't have anything to guide you in your pursuits. It's not just that success isn't the predictor of happiness. It's also that a well-rounded person has more avenues for success. He says somewhere else that humans have the power to decide what matters. You hate your job, but the job only gets you paid. You have the power to decide that what really matters is kicking ass at ping pong, or being a good parent, having a great social life, pursuit of hobbies, etc.. So even dominance doesn't make sense until you force people to choose what they want dominate.
@@charliegreen4128 No disagreements here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with "success" in general. What matters is the place that that desire for success comes from. If it's superficial motive then your success personally will only ever be just that - superficial. But if you really just want to follow a passion because you love it, or you work a job to provide for yourself and your family you'll have a much truer success. One that won't leave a poor after taste
This, with the combination of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Michael Greger, and Dr. Dean Ornish's work puts a lot of puzzle pieces together. Diet and psychology are hela interlinked.
I was entranced through every word of this talk. And I’ve listened to dozens and dozens of his talks - but this one was so incredibly important and relevant and seemingly perfected - it was so amazing, and I’m no doubt going to listen to it so many more times. Also, very interesting very last comment he made - that if he could give advice to his 21-year-old self that he would tell himself to be less ambitious. At first thought, it seemed to sound very counter intuitive and unexpected from him... but then I thought harder about it and understood exactly what he was going for with that thought.
soo many of us have had our heart broken .. who can be happy to see someone kill hope ?? and yes it is a multigenerational impact. ad al have one thing is HOPE .. hope fires brain stuff like no other.
i really liked it very much but i think in my unimportant sight that he should ve used up the whole time of lecture conveying his ideas and giving no time what so ever to making jokes so the audience would laugh and not feel bored. because he is not boring and the area of profession he lecturing is not boring as well.
Amazing to be taught valuable information that could keep us alive and to be entertained through humor makes him one of the best at lecturing I’ve ever heard. To walk away unfazed means you were either sleeping or playing with your phone. How to hear more scientific wisdom from him I’d like to know.
What a lovely beard!!! I love it. Full and light. He is aging very nicely as his energy in teaching is very intact as is very interesting and has a sense of humor loving teaching people, loving people. I respect this man very much and wished had a class with him in college.
One question I would have asked: What is the difference between stress and anxiety (if there is a difference)? If different, what are the differences in how they affect people?
Anxious is how you feel if you have to pass that spot again where the elephant gore even though you know they put the elephant in a zoo across the ocean.
Robert Sapolsky is first and foremost a teacher. He gives talks, he writes books, and he is a professor **because** he wants us to understand our world, especially the odd behaviors of this lucky wacky primate we call The Human Being. He is a fantastic teacher! We are so very fortunate to have him and his teachings.
When the last person to pose a question said, "I'm a huge procrastinator", I thought Dr Sapolsky would reply with, "So, you've been thinking of asking your question since I started my talk, right?" ^__^ (and, nice talk by the way)
stefano here: also stress can reduce gastric acid secretion, and stomach acid may be important to kill or prevent excesive proliferation of Helicobarter Pyllori and other bacteria in the stomach linning or walls, mucosa, wathever...
Wonderful talk... just wish the PA setup had better level limiting on the podium microphone, to keep the audio from distorting in louder moments. It seems to get better later in the talk.
Sapolsky is an amazing scientist, teacher, and standup comedian.
He's got my vote to replace George Carlin. Not dark enough. But they both have grey hair. and Sapolsky has the epic Santa beard.
Absolutely. Listen to that audience, dead silent, not even the annoying asshole coughing, they are intently listening. I've seen too comics and the pricks in the audience still talk amongst themselves.
Agreed! I can't wait to emulate some of this
Haha. Nice anti-climax! (And true :)
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This video is why we are so lucky to have TH-cam. Robert Sapolsky = many years of hard work and a brilliant mind = helping man grow up to be a better human being. I am just an average "Joe six-pack" and I get to benefit from one of the great people in this world. SOOOO lucky.
smrog, so cute! Please tell me you put just as much effort into the antagonistic muscles of your back. Otherwise, a six pack is emphasized by the 'Jock C-curve' posture model. Hips forward, shoulders pulled forward, great abdominal definition because of willful dehydration. Gyms need to put in big mirrors that show our backs and butts instead of just the front side; the pecs, the abs, the quads. Too much exercising a muscle group causes shortening of those muscles, thus the C curve. A professional will spot you out of a crowd and tell you where your workout is going wrong. Like moi!! Grins...fyi, tmi...I know! But, hard work does not make anyone brilliant nor the fittest. It takes perseverance, self questioning, time to read, to think, and most of all those first 5 years and possibly in-utero environmental/mental development that causes one to be able to use their 'quotient for intelligence'. To be able to think outside the box, NOT needing to follow some club, church, party affiliation, to be able to stand and think alone without mimicking those one thinks is superior. Robert was lucky (and unlucky) to have lived a life where operating out of the box worked for him. He most certainly 'worked' for that niche! I agree that we are so lucky to enjoy and learn from such top notch teachers! It is YOUR job in college to check out the professors/instructors that you are paying for...are they popular or are they making bucks for the University on research yet they HATE teaching. I loved making that latter type change their curriculum and teach others how to question and make their professors do their duty TEACHING. Very much fun. Hard to fall asleep in any class with this attitude! It is our responsibility to make more Robert Sapolsky's!! Just getting through a class to pass is such a waste of resources and money. It makes a difference when one puts themselves through school. What kid appreciates free stuff?
With so many entitled people in today's world, this comment is a breath of fresh air.
Only just discovered this guy and it’s an honour to be able to watch his lectures.
Fiercely intelligent, knowledgeable, articulate, yet with sprinklings of good humoured playfulness.
A true educator 👍
You are not six packs , if you are then you are abusing exogenous steroids.
Same here man :D This is gold (im a elementary school teacher in physical education from Sweden) and has broadened my horizons :)
Robert Sapolsky is a phenomenal educator. His ability to transfer complex information to his listener in a entertaining way is worthy of a study in and of itself.
Exactly! The fluidity of his presentation is absolutely amazing.
Farouk 👍👍👍❤️
Discovered this man today and this is my exact thought! wonder if he has a biography. Would be amazing to understand how he developed into who he is today🙂
@@suni9625 u r on to sth very interesting friend! I am so glad i found him. He changed my life.
Very true mate. I am delighted to have found this presentation. So much wisdom here to unearth.
This guy is binge-worthy. Really addictive.
Is amazing that one of the best living scientists today is also one of the best entertainers there is.
Never seen a thing but I’m defiantly watching this 😂
Part I - Sapolsky's speech
00:00 - 10:07 - introduction
10:08 - 14:00 - Selye's rats
14:00 - 18:40 - The stress response (inhibition of some less important processes)
18:40 - 20:20- Selye's theory - why it's not qute good?
20:20 - 23:14 - consequences of stress response (atrofy, diabetes, heart diseases - hypertension)
23:14 - 29:04 - type A personality
29:04 - 55:05 consequences of stress response (helicobacker pyroli and ulcers; growth and psychogenic dwarfism, the genesis of the Peter Pan; Libido and gonads, erection; immune system - stress and cancer; cognition and mood - hippocampus, depression, amygdala; idiopathic alopecia areata)
55:05 - 1:01:23 - coping with stress (study on rats - shock and frustration; role of warning and control; role of social economic status social isolation)
Part II - discussion
THANK YOU for this, champ! 😀
THANK YOU FOR THIS KING! i have to do this for assignment and don't feel like watching an hour video about Zebras xD
I just say DON'T try to skip to any particular parts, listen to it ALL
Sometimes one does not have the luxury of time... Thanks, I needed inspiration and that came at the end of the video.
Cheers for being helpful!
Had never of him, this video is my introduction to him. 1. Did not want his talk to end.
2. Am in such a euphoric state just knowing how much of him i am now gonna listen to and get his insights.
Thank you for this.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened-Montaigne
Hey Mr. Chaplin! I love your work! Though I'll admit... you lost me pretty solidly with the whole world war thing...
Maybe the joke was just lost on me...
Ah well, manners.
Anyways, the rest of your work? Love it!
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
Michel de Montaigne
"If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were."
Aldous Huxley
"Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday."
Robert M. Sapolsky
Sending energy and healing.
Dr. Sapolsky has restored my faith in the integrity of the scientific research community. He could have easily chosen a much more lucrative vocation manipulating the biochemistry of the mind but instead chose to apply his deep curiosity about behavior to the exposure of the nuts and bolts of what makes us act like humans. He makes the unfathomable almost simplistic without being condescending or superfluous and if that isn't enough he shares his life's work like a neighbor shares a lawnmower. The man is a virtual rock in earth shoes.
I love that he's so intellectually honest. Always willing to provide an answer, but also humble enough to flag that there are areas where he's not a researcher and more of a speculator. That's real integrity.
I watched a lecture given to NIH and there was mention of Genetically Engineering the Brain. I'm not sure this work is actually selfless.
This man is born to teach
This is my video (not just lecture) of the decade.
Sapolsky's intelligence and humour is matched only by his humility.
A truly fabulous mind.
I know having a stable permanent home would go a long way in curing my anxiety
For real!
Good luck in your search for one.
I hope you find it. Lucky hippo 🦛
Amen to that Jill
Getting gored by an elephant is a common theme in Sapolsky lectures. I like it.
The last sentence - He wished, he was less ambitious. When I think about it now - ambition caused lots of hard life and stress for me. I might have messed up my health putting myself into huge stress. And the result in the end might not be worth it, so yes. Very great advice!! At least for me.
He is the most interesting person to listen to. I am now listening to his videos almost every day for weeks now. Nothing he ever says is boring. This is entertaintment and knowledge in their best form.
His sense of humor really strenghtens his lectures, he's not like a robot talking without emotions, he's really into the stuff
omg I love this guy..Not many can pull this off....making lectures super interesting and educational, with tons of laugh out loud moments. He's a legend
Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers is a great book. Love Robert Sapolsky's sense of humor. He's got a way of making miserable diseases palatable.
Is this presentation a good summary of the book?
I love this man and his brain ......and his quite , gentle voice .
It is quite quiet.
So thankful for this. This is simply great to have. I envy our generation for having such an easy access to these type of contents. Greetings from Argentina.
This was an good video to watch that helped me think about why I am chronically sick with headaches and an audio immune problem. I am so young but don't really handle stress well. Sapolskys lecture was amazing and I feel lucky to have seen and heard him speak.
Capitalist society is causing your stress.
Also neurodivergency like autism and ADHD cause elevated stress. Both intrinsically and by how neurotypicals treat you... .
just before listening to this lecture had started considering a law school 🤦♀️ Robert, you brought me back to life, thank you!!!!
I fell asleep with headphones on and the crowd clapping scared the hell out of me.
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مع الأسف، مفروض تجيد اللغةالانجليزية لو عندك اهتمام الي هذه المجال، الترجمة لا تنفع.
وللاسف هو سبب تخلفنا نحن العرب انه لايوجد اهتمام بترجمة كل جديد في الابحاث--ده غير اساتذتنا في الجمعات وطريقة تدريسهم الغبيه----وطبعا دراسة العلوم باللغه الانجليزيه اللي لايجيدها الكثير من زمايلنا اللي لايقلون كفاءه عن اقرانهم في الجامعات الاخري
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@@mohammedabdelsalam2288 ich gebe Ihnen vollkommen recht. Was hatten sie gleich geschrieben? :-)
I know there's umpteen thousand lectures, symposiums, documentaries, podcasts, et cetera on here featuring Dr. Sapolsky, but man would I love to go and see him live. It's be as cool as seeing Barbara McClintock with her corn.
Many thanks for uploading this. I blame this guy totally for sparking my interest in science, and I think it's wonderful that people have made his features accessible to high school drop outs like me. Cheers!
Never heard of Barbara McClintock... shall look her up.
// , Knowledge does not come from a piece of paper
He's awesome in person.
Cheers
I am proud of being a high school dropout I know that sounds odd.My father died when I was 16 I had no other family to speak of. A family friend , an atty offered me a job at min wage as his receptionist.There I learned to file, type wills, deeds and other legal documents. I learned some about law and lots of legal terminology.Then I became a hospital admissions clerk at night and after 8 pm I had 3 hours of free time just waiting for any late admissions. In those days security was not as tight as now. The doctors medical,library was not locked so I would bring down a couple of medical books on diagnoses I had typed in to read ... I was exposed to medical procedures, surgeries. I booked operatingrooms, labs,.and xrays for the following day from drs who called them in to me usually on newly admitted patients. So I learned medical.terminology and a few things about medicine. Next I worked at a city medical center admitting patients Tufts NE Med CEnter in BOston. Upstairs there was a rehab hospital for para and quadraplegics. There was a female psychologist on staff. I got.to know her. There were no female doctors in the 1960s that I had met...they existed but were few and far between.The more I learned about what the psychologist did the more curious I became.She encouraged me to take the GED you had to be 21 back then to take it...I took it and passed. Then she told me to take the SATS. I did and took her my scores. She said wow you should go to college...I had scored in the 98th percentile on the verbal..I was an avid reader...my math was less than stellar. She said try the community college. I went talked with the registrar and he said if you take a math course and make a B I will let you in. The Vietnam War was raging, males were desperate to go to collee to get draft deferments enrollment was tight. I continued to work and took a math course at night. I got a B. So the next semester I had applied for a job on campus as a secretary and got it because I knew medical.terminology ...secretary to the new Dean of Allied Health.I was able to work my schedule.of classes around my job thanks to him. I loved psych...I made deans list and finished with a 3.8 average. I then went to a four year college graduated with honors took the GRE got admitted to the 2 grad schools.I applied to. I chose one and got my masters and PhD. This journey took ten years but I graduated debt free working on campuses being a teaching assistant, working on research grants etc.. I became a PhD clinical.psychologist and an assistant then associate then full.professor...later a college administrstor and at 50.was.offered a college presidency.
I chose to turn it down and instead to sail with my husband in the Caribbean...I knew my window to do that was short, no one STARTS that kind of sailing at 65 sail handling by that age is just too physically difficult, especially for a woman and I was ready for a new adventure.I had lived under my means all my career saving and investing so my husband and I had the funds to retire at 50.and 55. Had I not been a poor student all those years I likely would notmhave savedmso much amd invested so well,,,tech stocks in the 90s.By then among many other college programs I ran I was setting up tech labs chosing software courses to teach and knew what tech products were selling on a large scale to businesses and industry...not inside info but sales info which guided my personal investing.
I tell you this to say you can do pretty much anything you want to do.Had I gone to college at 18 I would not have had the drive , motivation and maturity to do that long haul learning. Many can and do but I was not ready at 18. Those years in the workforce precollege were highly motivating for me..Most college students are trying to make a social life, find a mate and are distracted by those things while they are college...I wasnt . I knew it was my chance to make a different life for myself.
You may want instead to start a business or do other things in life and you can learn anything you need in many ways. Some professions are closed off without a traditional education but so much ISNT. You can educate yourself quite well online.
I just found a marketing course online free from the Wharton School.of Business for a young 29 yr old man with an 8th grade education in Guatemala.He wants to learn business and was curious about marketing..he worked hard to learn English and is now fluent...he is very bright but had to go to work at 14 to help support his large family. He has all the ingredients of a successful business owner...he already has a successful one just on a small scale.
You will.realize one day thatbyou GOT things developmentally from dropping out...even if just maturity. Build from where you are in the direction you want to go..dont compare yourself with others just be yourself and move in YOUR direction...
Sybil.Francis PhD clinical.psychology 1979
This conférence should mandatory in biology.......and comedy class
One needs to be careful when listening to a charismatic, eloquent, educated (more than us) speaker. Always listen critically. Don't give up your own mind to them. I am not saying anything Dr S said is incorrect in the slightest, but I see several comments that attribute his rightness to how much you were entertained by the interaction.
good point here.
of course i will
I definitely agree. I think it is clear in his lecture series that Dr. Sapolsky understands that as well. Many of his explanations begin with a twist, where he starts along the 'obvious' explanation, then proceeds to dismantle it. At least in my experience, this has lead me to always be second guessing his explanations, trying to think ahead and catch him out before he points out the twist. Actually, it's rather similar to the Veritasium approach.
To me, this shows that he has a good broad knowledge of the subject, and especially that his understanding is self-consistent - evidenced by how he can deftly shift between different views/interpretations during an explanation (such as in his Human Behavioural Biology lecture series). I find the contrary is that if someone sticks tightly to a script, it is often a sign that they have learnt by rote - rather than through actual understanding.
Yeah, there's no evidence stress causes stomsch ulcers.
He stated nobody dies of flu anymore. This is of cause grossly incorrect.
Holy crap, the best introduction ivs seen on youtube yet. He is consise, says what he wanted to give an overview and had 0 pauses.
Dr. Sap's The Man - one of the best, smartest intellectuals in the US. Listen to his Stanford Lectures (there's 20). Pitched slightly higher than this but well worth it. D.A., JD, NYC
I am so glad that there is people out there like Dr. Robert Sapolsky so we can get to to know the how's of the screws, bolts and nuts of the brain.
Priceless every second! as is the stanford lecture series.
Agreed!
Dr. Robert's style of presenting serious facts is simply great. He's energetic and equally comic in his delivery to keep watching.
Video is just starting, but I know I'm going to love it. Dr. Sapolsky is an amazing teacher/storyteller/presenter.
Prof Sapolsky has changed my perspectives on how to deal with my long-term stress/depression, and I have been applying his insights in the last couple of weeks with very good results really :) Thank you Prof Sapolsky!
What are the insights that you apply, if it is not too personal?
Yeah, please share if possible.
Therapy can't cure the problems capitalism causes.
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Fascinating and superbly delivered, as always. Initially ditched the Q & A but returned another day and was blown away by the importance and clarity of Sapolsky's answers.
I never get tired of listening to dr. Sapolsky. He really knows a ton and cares a ton and not to mention what a pleasant down-to-earth humorous human being he is. I can never thank him enough for the joyful and valuable lessons.
I do wish someone had asked about his thoughts on the recent achievements of psychedelics for use in easing depression and improving overall well being. Would love to hear what he has to say as that is a longer term solution to antidepressants with substantially fewer and less serious side effects.
I can say that I’ve suffered from depression for most of my life. When I retired from law enforcement, my depression worsened significantly. On a whim, I tried marijuana edibles and they were transformative in the treatment of my depression. I can’t speak on psychedelics, but I think it’s worth a look.
I saw this growth change in kids that I worked with at school in the UK. They left school, got away from their parents and the shot up, filled out and became unrecognisable x
Okay, so when our crazy species inevitably starts cloning people, can we please make like a billion Robert Sapolskys? This man's mind is breath of fresh air. Just received "Behave" in the mail today and can't wait to dig in.
MIT students made Norman Bates AI, and people made an AI clone of Salvador Dali for the Salvador Dali Museum using Deepfakes. Bad choices in my opinion. An AI clone of Winston Churchill, and an AI clone of Robert Sapolsky, and an AI clone of George Carlin have my vote.
Hey Micah, fancy seeing you here :^)
@@bluejay6904 If Winston Churchill were alive today, he would have charged with war crimes. Since it is not that practical to run any simulation on a live psychotic mind, Norman Bates AI may have some merits in research purposes.
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
Are you sure about that? Better talk to his wife and kids before you start the cloning
That's a potential humongous environmental impact for hordes of people saying and thinking the same things, a few hundred tops seems optimal xD
My mother-in-law is 96 years old. She still cares for herself and has all the marbles she was born with -- plus many more. She smoked for 76 of those years. Three packs a day. She never exercised, never worried about her diet, and worried herself sick over her children. Somebody ought to study her before she dies... phenomenal.
What age did her parents reach?
@@NatalieKehr Her dad was killed in a car accident, but her mother made it to 90+ too.
Wondering how many lives will be improved as the result of this lecture, I'm really motivated.
Did it improve ?
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4 years later?
What a gem of a video! Hope this gets more views many could benefit from this. I’ll have to buy his book. Thanks for the post
The book just does not have his sweet melodic voice.
The book is totally worth it. It's a little stressful to read though.
@@bluejay6904 why stressful?
thank you so much robert, you literally save my time to realize that the most important thing in one's life is social support. and that being too ambitious is unnecessary.
I've started reading this book yesterday. It's amazing
Sapolsky has got a gift for being an outstanding lecturer. It would be amazing to take one of his classes. I bet they all fill up the second that registration opens, and I can’t imagine his popularity at Stanford as a professor.
Anything with Sapolsky is gold. He is who I want to be when I grow up (too bad I’m in my fourties)
It's NOT TOO LATE!!! Go git em Tiger!!! You know how to learn better than you did when you were younger!!! Come on!!!
Though I saw this late but believe you me, Robert is a genius, he makes me swallow his lectures like a spongy.
One of my favorite intellectuals EVER!
What ethnic group you belong to ?
This guy is simply brilliant !!!
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The last line just brought me down to earth. This was just brilliant.
55:08 He starts talking about what you can do to fix this mess
Without doubt the most engaging and smartest person I have had the pleasure of listening too
what a wonderful speaker and educator! also amazing sense of humor! lectures like that can make your life so much better.
Spot on
Just brilliant. Thank you so much for posting this incredible lecture that's so monumentally important for all humans living in the dark about themselves and those around them.
I would love to be in that auditorium! Great sense of humour mixed with knowledge in science. A phenomenal lecturer. I feel like I can watch this over and over without getting bored or tired.
Extraordinary Professor - what a lecture: entertaining, analytical and so insightful.
God, he’s as good a public speaker as he is to a class!
Same thing tho, is it not?
This is master piece. Robert Sapolsky is THE MAN about stress studies. Amazing
i highly recommend his book by the same title
Yes but you wil miss out on his glorious voice.
An awesome way to spend learning and laughing for an hour and a half.
What an inspiration. This presentation is a masterclass.
I've heard his lecture on this in various forms a lot, and every time it stresses me out about my stress levels.
I would love to hear him speak about psychosomatic pain. I've had a headache for 6 years :< I've forgotten what it feels like to not be in pain, and one of the side effects is constant stress. A few months ago I went for 3 days without sleep, for the last 3 weeks I've not been getting to sleep until sunrise and when I'm in stressful situations I end up hallucinating before sleep. not much pops up for how to deal with this pain, medical people often don't know about it, and when they do, they have no advice. But from what I've seen of Robert's video about depression, he started talking about the feelings of psychological pain having real biological representations - I'd like to hear more.
[From Prof. Justin Rhodes]
"Acute stress enhances the immune system, but chronic stress impairs the immune system. High levels of glucocoroticoids (stress hormones) kill lymphocytes (white blood cells that are an important part of your immune system). A great way to realize this is to consider that the drugs that are used by doctors to reduce the immune system (such as to treat an autoimmune disease, organ transplant to prevent rejection, or severe allergic reactions) is to inject synthetic stress hormones into the system such as dexamethasone, epinephrine, hydrocortisone. So chronic psychological stress, worrying all the time reduces the immune system which allows the bacterial infections to take hold. Also, stress diverts energy and blood away from the gut, so the gut has fewer energy to fight off the infections."
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Naw, a certain level of stress is healthy, go over that threshold and the stress reactions are harmful.
Thanks for that quote!
V G are you saying or intimidating that what I said was an actual quote by someone important? Sorry.
@Pike Fisherman You are missing what is important I think that you should take away for information. The mind and body are ONE. The body affects the mind and what the mind thinks affects the body. Philosophy is never as good as learning about how your own body works! The trick is to reduce STRESS. How to not allow little things to ever become stressful. There is a threshold for each individual, each species of animal. Once at that threshold one becomes literally deaf, dumb and blind. Gardening, getting your hands in the soil, some great crafty hobby, art! learning something new, taking a class to learn something new...powerful. Grins. You will learn that we are not in 'control' of our minds. Perhaps Buddhist teachers who have spent their entire lives rising above the trite life stuff feel like they are in control but I gotta tell you, we will never be in control, we should never want to be in full control. Lots to be said for the skill of going with the flow?
Wish I was smart enough to get into Stanford and go to his lectures.
You are in luck, Amber Morrison. He has a lecture series ib TH-cam.
Or wealthy enough , right ?
College isn't about intelligence. it's more about having the financial resources to get in. A friend from high school did his undergrad in San Jose State and got his master's degree in engineering from Stanford. He passed away from a sudden heart attack at age 35.
@@bluejay6904 Is he fat ?
@@achilles1541 Bruh was he fat
Great talk as always from Sapolsky. Super interesting to me, that at the end he would like to say to his earlier self "to be less ambitious" and that this was linked to how he used to think that the greatest determinants of psycho social health was social dominance and hierarchy and now knows that things like social support and personality stuff was far far more important. I think the link here is that for most go-getters ambition is linked to social dominance and hierarchy, and that he doesn't think as much focus should be placed in that. Instead we should be focusing on building strong relationships and developing ourselves into well-rounded decent people. I couldn't agree more. So fortunate to have stuff like this on youtube. Videos like this really do highlight how some youtube videos we all watch are really just not worth the time when there's things like this out there that can fundamentally reshape our lives and perceptions
Pretty easy for a well-paid famous Stanford professor to say
@@DelsinM He's not saying that you should live in poverty or whatever. But more saying that forming good relationships are a better path to being happy than money and success.
I think another bit of advice I've heard is to be specific in ambition. A lot of the stress of ambition is the feeling that you should be a vague concept of successful. A lot of the stress of working out how to get what you want is working out what you want, what that means, and how you'd get there.
A lot of success is to take certain things into your control and that means developing relationships and management of stress and management of your pursuits. If you're alone, you lack stress management support, you don't have a network to help you succeed, and you don't have anything to guide you in your pursuits.
It's not just that success isn't the predictor of happiness. It's also that a well-rounded person has more avenues for success.
He says somewhere else that humans have the power to decide what matters. You hate your job, but the job only gets you paid. You have the power to decide that what really matters is kicking ass at ping pong, or being a good parent, having a great social life, pursuit of hobbies, etc.. So even dominance doesn't make sense until you force people to choose what they want dominate.
@@charliegreen4128 No disagreements here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with "success" in general. What matters is the place that that desire for success comes from. If it's superficial motive then your success personally will only ever be just that - superficial. But if you really just want to follow a passion because you love it, or you work a job to provide for yourself and your family you'll have a much truer success. One that won't leave a poor after taste
Life changing. Learned more about myself, my body, my health in one hour than in all my life.
Amazing..get rid of the stressful setting
This, with the combination of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Michael Greger, and Dr. Dean Ornish's work puts a lot of puzzle pieces together. Diet and psychology are hela interlinked.
you are made of what you eat.
or in other words, your body makes its neurotransmitters, hormone, stress/glucorticoids from what you eat.
This is a brilliant and highly entertaining lecture. Glad to have discovered it! Chapeau!
Thank you for sharing your insight and years of work with the public . You are a national treasure.
What are the odds that the expert on stress has the most calming voice I have ever heard
I was entranced through every word of this talk. And I’ve listened to dozens and dozens of his talks - but this one was so incredibly important and relevant and seemingly perfected - it was so amazing, and I’m no doubt going to listen to it so many more times. Also, very interesting very last comment he made - that if he could give advice to his 21-year-old self that he would tell himself to be less ambitious. At first thought, it seemed to sound very counter intuitive and unexpected from him... but then I thought harder about it and understood exactly what he was going for with that thought.
What do you think he meant ?
That life is short, and one should be wise with what they want and choose to do with the brief time here.
soo many of us have had our heart broken .. who can be happy to see someone kill hope ?? and yes it is a multigenerational impact. ad al have one thing is HOPE .. hope fires brain stuff like no other.
I'm so grateful. What a great teacher!
Who would come here and dislike this? :( i wish more people were interested
gotta learn to ignore the trolls. sometimes some opinions, whether trolling or not, shouldn't affect yours.
i really liked it very much but i think in my unimportant sight that he should ve used up the whole time of lecture conveying his ideas and giving no time what so ever to making jokes so the audience would laugh and not feel bored. because he is not boring and the area of profession he lecturing is not boring as well.
Shifty Da Boxer Someone from scientology 😆
Amazing to be taught valuable information that could keep us alive and to be entertained through humor makes him one of the best at lecturing I’ve ever heard. To walk away unfazed means you were either sleeping or playing with your phone.
How to hear more scientific wisdom from him I’d like to know.
What a lovely beard!!! I love it. Full and light. He is aging very nicely as his energy in teaching is very intact as is very interesting and has a sense of humor loving teaching people, loving people. I respect this man very much and wished had a class with him in college.
Social support, great point.
Dr. Sapolsky is my new favorite Dr. Sacks! Love the intellects!
One question I would have asked: What is the difference between stress and anxiety (if there is a difference)? If different, what are the differences in how they affect people?
well if you've been gored by an elephant you're likely not anxious but very likely stressed if that gives you a better idea
Anxious is how you feel if you have to pass that spot again where the elephant gore even though you know they put the elephant in a zoo across the ocean.
Anxiety is an anticipation of a stressful event.
Sapolsky = greatest scientist/science educator of our day.
Favorite new word, "parentectomy".
Mine is "worktectomy" :)
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Gimme lifetectomy or give me death...
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Robert Sapolsky is first and foremost a teacher. He gives talks, he writes books, and he is a professor **because** he wants us to understand our world, especially the odd behaviors of this lucky wacky primate we call The Human Being.
He is a fantastic teacher!
We are so very fortunate to have him and his teachings.
When the last person to pose a question said, "I'm a huge procrastinator", I thought Dr Sapolsky would reply with, "So, you've been thinking of asking your question since I started my talk, right?" ^__^ (and, nice talk by the way)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 nice one
Well done Dr.!!! Well done!!! I never get tired of listening to you!
My favorite ASMR is Robert Sapolsky 🤤
YES...
introduction is nice and brief, thanks.
nonetheless, Sapolsky starts at 1:35
What a fantastic lecture and made completely alive with Robert's presentation. Thank you!
An answer to the age old question. "Why don't zebras...get ulcers". Excellent stuff my friends, just excellent
Here is one line to help you avoid stress..."Life is too important to take seriously"-Oscar Wilde
This is one key to avoiding stress.
Fantastic delivery. Superb all the way.
stefano here: also stress can reduce gastric acid secretion, and stomach acid may be important to kill or prevent excesive proliferation of Helicobarter Pyllori and other bacteria in the stomach linning or walls, mucosa, wathever...
Yes i have gastritis due to stress
yes, i am a proud owner of this book. i have enjoyed it since early nineties. a very talented professor
I always want to hear this talk
Wonderful talk... just wish the PA setup had better level limiting on the podium microphone, to keep the audio from distorting in louder moments. It seems to get better later in the talk.
Dungeon Master Sapolsky - Use the +20 staff !
The most cost efficient way to extend lifespan from this point forward would seem to be to reduce stress on a cultural level.
Truly a wonderful and effective teacher.
i honestly feel destressed by attending this lecture....we all need to reduce our stress for sure
If only we had this guy at my school ...I would have definately turned up for lessons!
He is just one of the best speakers around - loved this talk