This is a book club episode where Kyle, Doug, and Scott review Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.

Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:

• #164 - Why do we struggle?

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Intro/outro music: Fly Away by Mountaineer

Timestamps: 

• [00:17] Conversation primer
• [05:45] The bodega ritual
• [08:23] Book introduction
• [10:53] Addiction, pain, and pleasure
• [16:23] Access to porn and dopamine
• [19:33] Phone addiction and social media
• [26:10] Reading as an antidote
• [30:49] Smut, violence, arousal, and struggling
• [39:08] General takeaways
• [46:25] Our next book?
• [49:19] Outro