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started reading Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke

Dr. Anna Lembke: Dopamine Nation (Hardcover, 2021, Dutton)

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to …

Got interested in the book "The Dopamine Nation" after listening to the hidden brain podcast episode The Paradox of Pleasure, in which the author was interviewed. Probably would have not picked it up in the bookstore otherwise as the message seems clickbaity and obvious, I though that I don't need a book to tell me that modern technology and (social) are designed to make us addicted via dopamine spirals. But the podcast was more interesting than expected and I could identify with some addiction-like behaviors (which I only escaped from due to my partner and friends), so I thought I should give it a shot and I might learn something adaptable to my own life.