Judson Brewer: Addiction and the Craving Mind
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Judson Brewer MD PhD is widely considered an expert in the areas of habit change, the "science of self-mastery" and mindfulness training for addiction. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, he has trained US Olympic coaches, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TEDMED, Time, Forbes, BBC, NPR, Businessweek and others. So - you get the idea...this guy knows what he's talking about and what he's talking about is fascinating. It's a very different approach to ridding yourself of addiction and it works. it works much better than even currently accepted "gold standard programs" and it's something you can learn how to do today. In fact, you can learn how to do it by listening to this episode.
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In This Interview, Judson Brewer and I Discuss...
- His book, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
- Trigger, Behavior, Result
- Rewards and Punishments
- Habit Loop
- Subjective Bias
- Addiction: Continued use despite adverse consequences
- Addiction: a way to avoid something
- Every time we give in to a craving, we reinforce that habit loop
- Cravings are like stray cats
- If you don't feed a craving it will burn itself out
- Surfing a craving
- The way cravings feel like they're going to crush us and last forever - cognitive distortion
- Craving Wave: come - crest - go away\
- Awareness helps us surf these craving waves
- What does this feel like in my body right now?
- Paying attention to the craving rather than avoid it or make it go away
- RAIN
- This method had 5x quit rates than the gold standard smoking cessation program
- Substitute behavior
- In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness
- Investigate the craving and the reward
- Excitement brings contraction
- Get curious about your experiences - it helps you remain open
- Default mode network
- Conceptual vs Experiential Self
- The contraction of ego
- How we relate to our thoughts and feelings makes all the difference
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| 0:00.0 | Chocolate only serves as a temporizing measure |
| 0:03.3 | as compared to like reaching out and calling a friend |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the one you feed |
| 0:16.9 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have |
| 0:21.5 | Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true |
| 0:27.1 | And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, |
| 0:33.1 | self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 0:39.8 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. |
| 0:45.9 | It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:50.7 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 0:55.1 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:12.0 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Judson Brewer, MD and PhD. |
| 1:17.6 | He's the Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and Associate Professor in Medicine |
| 1:22.9 | and Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also an adjunct faculty member |
| 1:29.0 | at Yale University and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 1:34.8 | His book is The Craving Mind from cigarettes to smartphones to love. Why we get hooked |
| 1:40.4 | and how we can break bad habits. Can you think of a time in your life when you've been helped |
| 1:45.1 | along, supported or encouraged? If so, this is a time that you can choose to pay it forward. |
| 1:51.6 | A couple of weeks ago, I quit my day job to focus on the one you feed full time. |
| 1:56.0 | You might think since I chose to leave that job that the show generates enough income for me to |
| 2:00.4 | live on, but that's not the case yet. So I'm asking for your support today. But you're not just |
| 2:06.5 | supporting me. You're actually supporting a tool that's helping thousands of people feed their |
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