How To Academy | How to Fix Your Dopamine Addiction | Stanford Prof. Dr Anna Lembke @HowToAcademyMindset | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Relating complex neuroscience to our lived experience, Stanford Prof. Dr Anna Lembke will help us make sense of our dopamine-overloaded world and guide us towards a wiser, more balanced life.

Why does the pursuit of fleeting pleasure lead to pain… and what can we do about it?

We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. We've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.