Read & Repeat

Today we cover Atomic Habits by James Clear, a foundational book on habit science and behavior change.  Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement, where if we can get 1% better each day then those marginal gains will lead to huge outcomes in time. We must adopt positive identity habits, where we’ll reinforce our identity through actions like exercising or eating healthy to stay consiste...

We start off with Dopamine Nation, an excellent book by Dr. Anna Lembke on the struggles of addiction and how the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a role in our body. We'll discuss the fundamental pleasure-pain seesaw, which is an easy-to-grasp metaphor explaining how dopamine regulates our motivation and movement when pursuing rewards. We will also go through the DOPAMINE Framework tool that D...