Get Your Brain Addicted to Hard Things, or Dopamine Culture Will Rot It

Refusing to Settle by Clark Kegley

Aug 22, 202614:14Health

Chapters 00:00 The Modern Dopamine Trap 01:41 The Dopamine Hole 03:43 The Reward-Effort Timeline 0 6:56 The Trap of Misaligned Goals 08:07 Dopamine Recalibration 10:16 Mastering Friction 12:12 Drilling Down to Your Core...

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