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Anna Lembke: Dopamine Nation (Hardcover, 2021, Dutton)

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to …

Good explainer

Super interesting, it’s an explainer of how dopamine works in our brains and the duality between pleasure and pain. It’s a good introductory book to the subject. A takeaway for me was that a good strategy to break an addiction pattern might be total avoidance of the thing I’m addicted to for at least 3 weeks. It might not work for everybody and not for every intensity of addiction, but for me, it works.