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Andrew, welcome to another episode of after school. I'm Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine, and the host of the Huberman lab Podcast. Today, we will be learning about how to improve focus and attention. So without further ado, let's watch the animation. The best way to get better at focusing is to use the mechanisms of focus that you were born with. And the key principle here is that mental focus follows visual focus. We are all familiar with the fact that our visual system can be unfocused, blurry or jumping around, or we can be very laser focused on one location in space.

What's interesting and vitally important to understanding how to access neuroplasticity is that you can use your visual focus, and you can increase your visual focus as a way of increasing your mental of focus abilities more broadly. So I'm going to explain how to do that. Plasticity starts with alertness. That alertness can come from a sense of love, a sense of joy, a sense of fear. Doesn't matter. There are pharmacologic ways to access alertness too.