How to Make Yourself Unbreakable | DJ Shipley

I had a lot of emotional stuff happen to me in that second deployment. You know, my my idol, Maddie Roberts, I've talked about him a couple times. I really, really hung on to that dude. Like he was my true North. Like he was the guy.

And when he got shot up When you see it happen, you know, but I think that was the c uh the closest call for fire mission the entire Iraq war. Like inside uh 15 meters. I mean, Cordy Mike Mike's my AC 130 gunship, I mean, it was on top of you, like a belfed machine gun just chewing us up. Everybody shot up except for me and one other guy, and we're all crowded behind this tractor tire, just you felt like a victim.

Like I felt helpless. You know, I'm getting rounds poured all over me and at a certain point you just go I'd rather run back into the front of this thing and get killed with all of them than be the lone survivor. Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

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