In your new book, you explore the idea of habituation. And how it can take place without any chemical interaction between us and outside world. You advocate for mindfulness in a way that i haven't seen applied before. It feels like something is happening com internally that's driving me toward or away from certain behaviors. There are links being made between reward networks and self-referential behavior. In modern day people have speculated that social media is actually a survival mechanism to help us survive.
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses bad habits and how to change them.
He is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love -- Why We Get Hooked and how We Can Break Bad Habits -- and his TED Talk on how to change a bad habit has more than 12 million views.
But...we talk about so many other things in this episode. It's a free association smorgasbord of brain stuff that will rattle your head.
::: Show Notes at YouAreNotSoSmart.com :::
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