This Is Your Brain On iPhone — With Dr. Anna Lembke

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University's School of Medicine and chief of its Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She's also the author of Dopamine Nation, a bestseller that uses neuroscience to explain why the pursuit of pleasure so often leads to pain. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Lembke's fascinating thesis about what happens to our brain chemistry each time we pick a device. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss whether a more invigorating but less happy life is worth it.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
0:04.0	The show is a masterclass in better living from some of the smartest writers around.
0:08.7	Every morning, Monday through Friday, we'll serve up a quick 10-minute lesson on how to strengthen your relationships,
0:14.9	supercharge your creativity, boost your productivity, and more.
0:18.9	Follow the Next Big Idea Daily wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.6	LinkedIn Presents.
0:25.6	Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:47.0	And before we introduce our guests today, I just want to say that we are trying to get some more ratings on both Apple podcasts and Spotify.
0:54.2	These ratings really help.
0:55.2	They make sure that the podcast is seen by more people, which then enables us to get better
1:00.4	guests.
1:01.3	And guests like our guest today, Professor Anna Lemke.
1:03.9	So if you have a moment and you want to hit that five star on Apple or Spotify, you
1:08.9	want to get a quick dopamine hit, feel good about it.
1:11.7	We're about to talk about that.
1:13.2	I just encourage you to go do that.
1:14.9	And I can't even express how grateful we would be here at Big Technology Podcast if you make that happen.
1:20.9	Okay, let me introduce our guest today.
1:22.8	Our guest today is Anna Limke.
1:24.3	She's the professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, author of Dopamine Nation,
1:29.3	finding balance in the age of indulgence. It's a New York Times bestselling book. And what I love about
1:36.0	the book and what I love about hearing Dr. Lemke speak is that we have had a long conversation about phone addiction, companies trying to
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