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Choosing Enduring Dopamine
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English - June 22, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB - ★★★★ - 42 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business business mindfulness career creativity entrepreneurship fulfillment happiness health joy leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We often hear that awareness is the greatest agent for change. Our guests teach me it’s also a gift of understanding.
Insight around how dopamine influences our behavior is one I carry with me from Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford and Chief of their Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her description of dopamine deficit states offers a moment of clarity when I find myself engaged in a habit I know doesn't serve me.
Habits can be a source of stress or sustenance. In this episode snippet, Dr. Lembke illustrates the pain-pleasure balance that drives them and how we can harness them for good.