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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Pain, Pleasure, and the Addictive Chase for Dopamine | Dr. Anna Lembke

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. 

A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. 

Anna sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop, which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic. 

Anna appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

She's also the author of the recently published, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a world where feeling good is the highest good.


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0:00.0

And I would just add that one of the reasons that I claim that we're all more vulnerable

0:04.0

to addiction today is because we have drugs that didn't even exist before, things like video games

0:10.0

and social media. And even traditional drugs are so much more accessible that it's inevitable

0:16.1

that each one of us is going to find that key that fits perfectly into our dopamine lock

0:22.1

and turns it, making us all more vulnerable to the problem of addiction.

0:35.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am Michael Jervé.

0:40.7

And by trade and training, I am a sport performer psychologist,

0:44.0

honored to work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet.

0:48.1

The whole idea behind these conversations behind this podcast is to learn from people,

0:53.5

to understand their psychology. And most importantly, to understand their psychology so that you

0:59.1

can apply best practices in your own life. And in that process, we pull back the curtain

1:04.1

to explore how these extraordinary have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds.

1:10.5

As you would recognize, our minds are our greatest assets. And if you want to learn more about how

1:15.2

you can train your mind, this is just a quick reminder here to check out our online psychological

1:20.1

training course where we have pulled together the best practices to meet the unique intersection

1:25.8

of the psychology of high performance and the psychology of well-being. So we've pulled together

1:30.7

16 essential principles and skills for you to train your mind in the same way that we train world

1:37.3

class athletes. You can find all of this at finding mastery.net forward slash course.

1:44.8

Finding mastery is brought to you by Apollo neuro. I'm really excited about what Apollo neuro is

1:50.1

building. If you haven't had the chance to listen yet, I recently had a fantastic conversation

1:55.2

with our co-founder Dr. David Raven on the podcast. I highly recommend you go check that out.

2:00.8

It's well worth the listen. Apollo neuro is a ground-breaking wearable technology. It's

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