Are you addicted? You may be a slave to dopamine without realising it, whether in the substances you put into your body or the behaviors you adopt. Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation, joins Vasant Dhar in episode 26 of Brave New World to discuss how we can beat this.
Useful resources:
1. Anna Lembke’s website.
2. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence — Anna Lembke.
3. Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop — Anna Lembke.
4. Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine — Anna Lembke.
5. Is Social Media Hijacking our Minds? — Anna Lembke and Nir Eyal.
6. How Social Media Threatens Society — Episode 8 of Brave New World (w Jonathan Haidt).
7. True self and false self (Wikipedia).
8. Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self (1960) — Donald Winnicott.
9. Daniel Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement — Episode 21 of Brave New World.
10. How I Became Extremely Open-Minded — Ross Douthat.
1. Anna Lembke’s website.
2. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence — Anna Lembke.
3. Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop — Anna Lembke.
4. Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine — Anna Lembke.
5. Is Social Media Hijacking our Minds? — Anna Lembke and Nir Eyal.
6. How Social Media Threatens Society — Episode 8 of Brave New World (w Jonathan Haidt).
7. True self and false self (Wikipedia).
8. Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self (1960) — Donald Winnicott.
9. Daniel Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement — Episode 21 of Brave New World.
10. How I Became Extremely Open-Minded — Ross Douthat.