Why Did Andrew Huberman Almost Get Kicked Out of Hoffman?

Andrew Huberman says the Hoffman Process was most transformative for him in forgiveness. By the time he went, in his early forties, he had already learned how to work hard, perform well, and control his physical landscape. He is forty-five now. He still arrived harboring a lot of resentment, mostly toward family members, and also toward experiences and people outside his family.

He almost got kicked out the first day, not for misbehavior, but because he slept through the first day. He had been working so hard. Staff kept saying he was trying to escape by sleeping. He says he was just tired. He had never felt so nurtured, and he does not accept nurturing easily. He thinks of himself as a caretaker loner. In the work he purged the resentments. He says the process completely erased all feelings that he was wronged by anybody or anything. There is no pharmacology there. The change is completely behavioral.

Huberman has no business relationship to Hoffman. He says the effect is powerful and it does last. He went because Wendy Yalom mentioned Hoffman, and a person who had gone told him that ten years later it still had a profound positive effect and was more useful than any other therapy or training. Hoffman has a price point and a scholarship program where an applicant writes something out. He thinks practitioners, therapists, and people in the wellness community also get a break of some sort.