The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Dopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine! What Alcohol Is Really Doing To Your Brain! Your Childhood Shapes Future Addictions!
Steven Bartlett is a British entrepreneur, investor, and author. He’s the founder of Flight Story – a media company – and Flight Fund, an investment fund backing the next generation of category-defining businesses.
He created The Diary Of A CEO to share the unfiltered pages of the personal diaries of the world’s most fascinating CEOs, experts, therapists, and leaders – with the hope that their lessons will help both you and him live better lives.
DOAC is a double acronym: Diary Of A CEO, but also Dreamers, Open-minded, Awareness, and Connection.This is your corner of the internet to dream boldly, think openly, expand your awareness, and feel more connected.
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From smartphones, to sugar, to exercising, the modern world is plagued by dopamine addictions, and Dr Anna Lembke holds the key to breaking free
Dr Anna Lembke is Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of bestselling books such as, ‘Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence’.
In this conversation, Dr Anna and Steven discuss topics such as, the link between addiction and childhood trauma, how exercise balances your dopamine system, the benefits of chasing pain, and the real effects of alcohol on the brain.
Intro
Why Does Dopamine Matter?
What Is Dopamine?
How Understanding Dopamine Can Improve Your Life
Biggest Misconceptions About Dopamine
Everyday Activities That Impact Dopamine
Dopamine and Its Relationship to Pleasure and Pain
Why Do Our Brains Overshoot?
How Our Brains Are Wired for Addiction
Finding Ways to Deal With Pain
Stories of Addiction
How Many People Have Addiction Disorders?
Hiding Away From Friends and Family
Distinguishing Between Good and Bad Behaviors
How Addiction Makes You Feel
Is Work an Addiction?
What Activities Provide the Biggest Dopamine Hits?
Can We Inject or Drink Dopamine?
Why We Must Do Hard Things
Can You Get an Exercise Comedown?
How to Optimize for a Better Life
How Should We Be Living?
Being Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
Causes of Anxiety Throughout Life
Living in a World Where It's Easy to Outrun Pain
Where Are You Now in Your Grieving Journey?
Youngest Child Seen With Addictions
Youngest Age When Addiction Can Have an Effect
Youngest Patient With Addiction
Has Society Gone Soft?
Victimhood and Responsibility
How to Help Someone Overcome a Victimhood Mentality
Connection Between Responsibility and Self-Esteem
Importance of Our Self-Narrative
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How Helping a Loved One Too Much Can Hurt Them
Overcoming Pornography Addiction
Harms of Watching Porn
Is Dopamine Responsible for Sugar Cravings?
Turning Addictions Around
Why We Bounce Back to Cravings After Relapsing
Effects of Early Exposure to Addictive Substances on Children
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