Winners and losers both face negative emotions, but winners transmute that energy into constructive action while losers let it destroy them. Huberman connects this to trusting your gut instinct in decisions, from choosing a golf club to business moves, even when you can't fully explain why.
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someone I really respect said this. There are basically two kinds of people in life. There are winners and there are losers. And the definition is this: losers take things that happen to them and that they feel inside that suck, and they wallow. They use it for self or outward destruction. Winners take whatever they feel, they feel it, it sucks, and they transmute it into things that are good for themselves and for the world. Period. End of story. And so when I say it's like devil-god stuff, it's actually that way.
That's how it works, man. I'm learning to play golf, and sometimes I'll be playing with some buddies and I'm like, how do you know what club to use? It's just a feel. You do it enough, you feel what club to use. And I was taught the same thing in business, like, how do you know what to do in every situation? Same as he said, man, sometimes you just go with your gut and learning to trust yourself even though you don't necessarily know why in the