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“Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertained.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“Human beings, the ultimate seekers, have responded too well to the challenge of pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. As a result, we’ve transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“The more dopamine a drug releases in the brain’s reward pathway (a brain circuit that links the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex), and the faster it releases dopamine, the more addictive the drug.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“With repeated exposure to the same or similar pleasure stimulus, the initial deviation to the side of pleasure gets weaker and shorter and the after- response to the side of pain gets stronger and longer, a process scientists call neuroadaptation.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“The phylogenetically uber-ancient neurological machinery for processing pleasure and pain has remained largely intact throughout evolution and across species. It is perfectly adapted for a world of scarcity. Without pleasure we wouldn’t eat, drink, or reproduce. Without pain we wouldn’t protect ourselves from injury and death. By raising our neural set point with repeated pleasures, we become endless strivers, never satisfied with what we have, always looking for more.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“By protecting our children from adversity, have we made them deathly afraid of it? By bolstering their self-esteem with false praise and a lack of real-world consequences, have we made them less tolerant, more entitled, and ignorant of their own character defects? By giving in to their every desire, have we encouraged a new age of hedonism?”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“The pursuit of personal happiness has become a modern maxim, crowding out other definitions of the “good life.” Even acts of kindness toward others are framed as a strategy for personal happiness. Altruism, no longer merely a good in itself, has become a vehicle for our own “well-being".”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence