Should You Do Hard Things? Anna Lembke MD and Joe De Sena
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What does the science say? Anna Lembke MD, Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University and author of "Dopamine Nation," says yes! She explains, in terms we can all understand, why this is the case. How does your reward system work? How have human interactions been “druggified”? If Buddha said take the middle path, why is it that today we need to take the hard path?
Anna Lembke, MD’s book Dopamine Nation https://amzn.to/3ua8Lgn
More about Anna Lembke, MD https://www.annalembke.com/
Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”
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Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com
Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | We have machines doing a lot of the physical labor for us, and we have the technology that has allowed us to drugify almost every human experience. |
| 0:09.8 | So even things like food and human connection, |
| 0:14.3 | you know, things that release dopamine |
| 0:16.1 | and are fundamentally healthy have become drug-ified. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast, |
| 0:21.5 | hosted by Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race and |
| 0:24.8 | brought to you by Wild Health. |
| 0:26.8 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:31.6 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the Spartan |
| 0:36.4 | up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:41.1 | Get fully personalized health care based on your DNA biometrics and blood work with |
| 0:45.7 | wild health the official health care provider of Spartan. Go to wild health |
| 0:49.7 | com and use the code Spartan 10 to save 10%. |
| 0:53.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Duralane, |
| 0:57.0 | a single injection that may provide up to six months relief |
| 1:00.0 | from osteoarthritis knee pain. |
| 1:02.0 | Risks can include general knee pain and pain at the injection site. |
| 1:05.0 | You can see full prescribing information at doorlane.com. |
| 1:08.0 | Joe Descenta here, CEO and founder of Spartan. I got a big one for you. This might be our |
| 1:14.4 | best podcast. I don't know. We've done 500 plus podcast. We've been doing this forever. |
| 1:19.5 | Dr. Anna Lemky. And she is, are you the head of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford or you should be? |
| 1:29.5 | No, I am the head of addiction in the Department of Psychiatry. |
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