1215: An Excerpt from The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked by Judson Brewer

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🗓️ 9 April 2019

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An excerpt from the book The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked by Judson Brewer Episode 1215: An Excerpt from The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked by Judson Brewer This book provides groundbreaking answers to the most important questions about addiction. Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has studied the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can tap into the very processes that encourage addictive behaviors in order to step out of them. He describes the mechanisms of habit and addiction formation, then explains how the practice of mindfulness can interrupt these habits. Weaving together patient stories, his own experience with mindfulness practice, and current scientific findings from his own lab and others, Dr. Brewer offers a path for moving beyond our cravings, reducing stress, and ultimately living a fuller life. Visit him online at: DrJud.com And check out his book here: https://amzn.to/2WSrqtA Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1215, an excerpt from the book The Craving Mind
0:05.6	from cigarettes to smartphones to love why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits by Judson
0:11.5	Brewer. And I'm Justin Mollick, welcome to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast,
0:16.6	where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from,
0:20.4	and actually sometimes books like today. Dr. Brewer is one of the world's top neuroscientists,
0:26.0	a psychiatrist, and the director of research and innovation at the mindfulness center at Brown
0:30.8	University. He's a leading authority on how our brains form bad habits and addictions,
0:35.5	and the specific tools people can use to overcome them. You can find him at JudsonBrewer.com,
0:40.4	which I've linked in this episode's description. And I'll get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:50.2	An excerpt from the book The Craving Mind from cigarettes to smartphones to love why we get
0:55.6	hooked and how we can break bad habits by Judson Brewer. Giving feels good. For those of us who get
1:03.6	fired up when we see injustices in the world, many might feel like righteous anger is a good thing.
1:09.2	We may feel that getting up off the couch as we shake our fists at a politician,
1:12.9	giving us speech motivates us to vote. Watching YouTube videos of police brutality may motivate us
1:19.1	to join an advocacy group or do some community organizing. We may also wonder what would happen if
1:24.5	we didn't get angry. Would we just sit on the couch like a lump? On my anger meditation retreat,
1:30.8	I noticed that my habit was not helping me get concentrated. I started to become less excited
1:36.0	about it, disenchanted, and as a result, I noticed that I had a lot more energy freed up to do
1:41.2	other things. Why? That's probably all of us can relate to. Anger is exhausting. On my retreat,
1:48.2	this repurposed energy went to a less distracted and, yes, much more concentrated mind.
1:54.4	As the direction of anger died down, I was able to bring the proper conditions together to drop
1:59.1	into a very concentrated state, one that stayed on point for up to an hour at a time. That was a
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