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"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia. Which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke

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Dopamine is a constantly surrounding temptation, so in order to stop the overindulgence, you’ll have to restrict your access to these stimuli.

If you’re on your way to school or work, try not listening to music or to your podcast for a change. Instead, let your thoughts...

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Book Overview

Compared to our ancestors, we’re living in a world of opulence. On the bright side, constant access to all resources and remarkable amenities creates a world of opportunities. On the other hand, this way of living turns many people into dopamine addicts.

You’re likely o...

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If you like going to the gym, or you’re a sports person, you know how hard it is to get up and stick to your routine, and even while doing your exercises, how that muscle pain feels like.

After all, you’re subjecting your body to a short-term

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Not only does it enhance your dopamine levels, but it also promotes a healthier body in the long run. The same goes for intermittent fasting, cold showers, and many other examples.

Subjecting your body to such activities increases its resistance and builds up a stronger natural immune syst...

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Checking our phone 24/7 , drinking and eating all the unnecessary edibles just for the sake of pleasure, spending valuable time and money gambling, or avoiding human contact in favor of porn, are just a few o...

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Top 3 Lessons From The Book

  1. Misery turns humans into pleasure addicts who can’t deal with discomfort.
  2. Our brains build resistance to dopamine over time, and that’s a bad thing. 
  3. Ironically, pain can help us tap into our dopamine reserves. 

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The balance between the mind, body, and spirit can be restored, as long as the damage hasn’t occurred for too long and the dopamine source wasn’t too harmful. Pornography or video games are considered harmful, but low-risk activities. Consuming drugs, on the other hand, can be life-threatening.

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If you feel like you’re becoming stressed, just deal with the feeling. Listen to your inner voice and try to find what it is that your mind is trying so hard to cover up. Find your source of distress or misery and cure it. 

If you learn to tolerate s...

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Lesson 1: Dopamine addiction follows from our desire to stop feeling miserable.

Going through life, there’s plenty of misery and unhappiness we’ll face, just as there are many happy and beautiful moments we’ll witness. However, it seems that we’re not too good when it comes to dealing with pain, so we try to cover it up with small, but effective doses of pleasure.

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One of the major downsides of a dopamine addiction is the pain that comes with it. As we build resistance, we find that we can’t live without dopamine, so we start to have cravings that may look like crankiness, moodiness, anxiety, or even physical imbalances.

Moreover, as we consume the t...

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Dopamine Nation - Book Summary

Dopamine Nation talks about the importance of living a balanced life in relation to all the pleasure and stimuli we’re surrounded with on a daily basis, such as drugs, devices, porn, gambling facilities, show...

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Lesson 3: Using pain as a dopamine source can promote our well-being.

By now you already know that pleasure is inevitably followed by pain, and that too much of it can cause high levels of damage to our brain and body.

However, used the other way around, pain can help us achieve pleasure and increase our dopamine levels. Ironic, isn’t it? Let me break it dow...

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Dopamine Nation - Book Review

Dopamine Nation explores how overflowing sources of dopamine can become a burden to carry. Although the constant availability of resources looks like a good thing from the outside, it can lead to serious problems...

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Who would I recommend our Dopamine Nation to?

The 30-year-old gambler who wants to fight his addiction, the 35-year-old person who is looking to better themself and create a healthier routine in their life, or the 40-year-old life coach who is looking to learn more about the root causes of misery and how to fight them, so as to deliver bette...

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Lesson 2: Constantly fulfilling our dopamine cravings leads to neuroadaptation.

Just like a drug addict, we go back to our sources of dopamine every time we need a new dose of pleasure. However, as we consume more of them, our brain starts to get used to the feeling and builds resistance.

Thus, more of that source of dopamine is required to maintain the level of pleas...

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