Saved by Andrew Reeves and
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
The years ahead are likely to bring ever more powerful technologies that can exploit our ways of thinking, fuelling addictive and compulsive behaviour. The world has lots of experience of trying to handle or at least contain potentially destructive addictive behaviours. Will these prompt new temperance movements, focused now on digital behaviours (
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
People like to get into that particular zone.”11 “Gambling is not a movie,” echoed a casino operator in the course of a G2E panel, “it’s about continuing to play.”
Natasha Dow Schüll • Addiction by Design
When the right dose, type, place, and time come together, even lifelong abstainers can get hooked.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
Detoxing allows us to build the foundational strength of self-regulation and feel beyond the immediate itch or craving, to see down the road so that we can live with planning and purpose and not simply reactively.