Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
Disengaging from the dopamine that comes from stimulation and replacing that with dopamine sourced from engagement is one of the best trades you can make for your mental health.
Chris Bailey • How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
Addiction is a progressive narrowing
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. • Tweet
DOPAMINE Begin a novel exercise routine. Learn to play a new instrument. Get out of your social comfort zone. Begin a side entrepreneurial project. Start a new blog, newsletter, or Meetup group. Break from the “tranquility of repetition.” Take alternate routes to work and travel more frequently. NOREPINEPHRINE Halt chronic consumption of news, whic
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Human beings, the ultimate seekers, have responded too well to the challenge of pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. As a result, we’ve transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance. Our brains are not evolved for this world of plenty. As Dr. Tom Finucane, who studies diabetes in the setting of chronic sedentar
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