4.8 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives and is also the author of “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” an instant New York Times Bestseller.
In this episode, we talked about addiction psychology, mental illness, treatment, productivity habits...
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0:00.0 | I do think that people are sort of innately wired differently, and that kind of restlessness, |
0:06.6 | if channeled, can lead to intense productivity. In some ways, those folks are the lucky ones, right? |
0:14.3 | Because there's a lot of discontent and restlessness that people never learn to channel or never |
0:20.5 | learn to harness. |
0:21.6 | And so they just are left with that and don't found companies and have this kind of success. |
0:29.6 | But I think the illusion for people who are able to channel their restlessness and discontent |
0:36.6 | is that through achievement and validation, |
0:40.3 | they will someday get to the place where they're no longer restless and no longer discontent. |
0:46.3 | And that's actually the part that's not true. That's the myth. |
0:50.3 | Because really, it's just part of human nature and part of life that we're always a little bit |
0:59.4 | dissatisfied and that really there's no external achievement that's going to get rid of that |
1:05.9 | as my one patient called it pilot light of anxiety. It's just part of being human. |
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