Brain HealthNavy SEAL Andy Stumpf on Building Discipline and Mental Resilience
Andy Stumpf, a retired Navy SEAL and world-record wingsuit BASE jumper, joins Andrew Huberman to discuss practical mental frameworks for building discipline and resilience. The conversation covers tools for filtering nagging thoughts, the power of consistently choosing slightly harder options to build tenacity, managing social media and screen time, navigating divorce and parenting, and confronting the tragic prevalence of suicide among high performers and veterans. Stumpf draws on extreme athletic and combat experience to offer grounded, immediately applicable strategies for focus and decision-making. The episode also touches on trauma recovery, ibogaine therapy for military veterans, adrenaline and flow states, and how everyday micro-choices compound into lasting mental strength and longevity of performance.
