Mentioned 8 times on 2 shows.
“Good to see you again, Andrew. Great to have you back. Your book, Dopamine Nation, and many things that you were saying in and around that book have become true. So I want to start off by saying thank you. You were right. Most of the world is addicted to the internet in some form, social media.”
“And so, yes, I mean, the dopamine nation is all about that we live in a drugified world, that almost everything has become more accessible, more reinforcing, more plentiful, you know, making us all more vulnerable to the problem of addiction.”
“There are access risk factors. So, and then that's one of the main focuses of Dopamine Nation, like simply having access to a drug means you're more likely to use it, more likely to change your brain in the process, and more likely to get addicted, which is also why addiction doesn't discriminate.”
“It is completely adaptive to do that. What I am talking about is the mismatch, and it's a similar argument with dopamine nation. The mismatch in dopamine nation that I talked about is this plenty paradox where we reflexively approach pleasure and avoid pain.”
“Like when I finished dopamine nation, I knew I wanted to write radical surrender. I originally had a chapter in dopamine nation on spiritual surrender and its role in recovery. I ended up cutting it because I couldn't do it justice.”
“And it's always good for us to understand how the world is acting on us and how we're acting in the world. And I love the topic of the new book. I think it's fantastic. I can't wait to read it. As I loved and continue to, you know, talk uncontrollably about Dopamine Nation.”
“They think of it as pleasure. Most people, thanks to Analemke's book, Dopamine Nation, now, and the book The Molecule of More, which is also excellent, in my opinion, that dopamine is about craving, wanting, motivation, at least as much and probably more than it is about pleasure.”
“For some people, it's compulsive water drinking. I mean, Anna Lemke of Dopamine Nation talks about a patient of hers that was basically addicted to water, a compulsive water drinker. They actually died. It's very, very sad. Like, in all seriousness, like over ingestion of water in this woman.”