878 How to Build Life Changing Habits and Break Addiction with Dr. Jud Brewer

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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YOUR EGO NEEDS FEEDING. We all have addictions. Some of us know exactly what habits we need to break. Others don’t even realize we’re addicted to unhealthy patterns. Whether it’s smoking, relationships, or simply being addicted to ourselves, we could all benefit from mapping out our habits to begin to understand them. It’s important to foster our curiosity. If we can learn to investigate our minds the way we investigated our environment as children, we can begin to understand ourselves. Sometimes it’s our ego that we continue to feed. Other times it’s a false sense of reward we think we’re receiving from an old habit. Through mindfulness, we can learn to experience our habits as they are and not as we remember them. When we do this, we can begin breaking even our most challenging addictions. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, we discuss optimizing habits, breaking addictions, and transforming your life with one of the kindest addiction psychiatrists and mindfulness experts that I have ever met: Dr. Jud Brewer. Dr. Jud Brewer is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, and emotional eating and anxiety. So get ready to learn how mindfulness can free you from addiction on Episode 878. Some Questions I Ask: What was the hardest addiction for you to overcome? (11:05) What is the first thing people can do to self-assess themselves? (21:45) What are the 5 or 6 common addictions that most people have? (22:30) Are meditation and mindfulness the solution to everything? (36:00) Are there any addictions that you have not been able to overcome? (46:55) What’s the difference between a habit and an addiction? (50:00) Is mental illness something that can be cured? (54:30) What is the difference between mindfulness and overthinking? (57:50) In This Episode You Will Learn: About the ego and how many people are addicted to themselves (13:25) How mapping out your habit loops can help you understand the truth about your experiences. (21:00) The power of curiosity (20:00) About reward-based learning (26:30) The science behind reward-based learning and how it helps us understand changing behavior (31:30) How to hack cravings with curiosity (34:30) How Dr. Jud’s apps help you map out your habits and start your habit-breaking journey (42:00) About positive habits and when they become problematic (45:00) About the two types of curiosity (52:00) Why we continue to struggle so much when the answers are often right in front of us (59:00) The science behind the effect of true generosity, kindness, and connection on our habits (1:07:00) Plus much more... If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/878 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0	This is episode number 878 on how to build life-changing habits and break
0:06.3	addiction with Dr. Judd Brewer. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is
0:14.2	Louis Howe's former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we
0:18.8	bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock
0:23.4	your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the
0:28.1	class begin. At Card Tolle said in today's rush we all think too much, seek too
0:40.6	much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being. This episode will
0:47.7	literally change your life because we all have had different habits and addictions
0:53.9	that have hurt us and held us back. We've also had different habits that have
0:59.1	helped move us forward and improve our life. Today I want to talk about how we
1:04.7	can really optimize habits to transform our life in a powerful way and how to
1:10.5	end any addiction that you've had that has held you back whether it be 5, 10, 20,
1:16.3	30 years of an addiction with a habit that's been holding you back that you've
1:21.2	tried everything we're going to finally break down the science to prove and
1:26.1	research on how to break addiction and I'm so excited about this make sure you
1:31.1	share this out because this will literally transform so many people's lives who
1:35.5	apply this information and actually do this. Now Dr. Judd Brewer and I had an
1:41.2	incredible conversation. I fell in love with this man right away we just went in
1:45.7	deep and I just love that he's been doing the research and the science to prove
1:50.1	these things for so long. He's the director of research and innovation at the
1:54.4	mindfulness center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine
1:59.3	at Brown University as well as a research affiliate at MIT. He's the founder of
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