If you don’t want to do something – it helps

It’s called the anterior mid-cingulate cortex (aMCC).

Things that you DONT want to do

Holy fuck. Overcoming challenges, this is important.

THIS IS THE LONGEVITY / WILL TO LIVE

Holy FUCK – do you WANT TO LIVE?

Obese people have LESS or smaller of this

Recent human studies (not mice) show:

• It’s smaller in people with obesity → grows when they successfully diet
• Super-athletes have an unusually large aMCC
• People who live the longest keep this area big their entire life
• It enlarges every single time you force yourself to do something you genuinely do NOT want to do
• It shrinks almost immediately if you stop or if the same task becomes enjoyable

The one brain structure that literally grows when you do things you HATE doing — and shrinks the moment you get comfortable.

Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman dropped what he calls “one of the most important discoveries in the history of neuroscience” in a conversation… pic.twitter.com/F84zPdazPC

— Camus (@newstart_2024) December 10, 2025