@tokyolagirly: Your summary on Dopamine Nation and some implementable steps ✨The concept of pain and pleasure are on a pendulum… If you feel immense amount of pleasure , you’ll feel immense amount of pain. That is why we sometimes cry on our birthdays or feel sad after a fun day with her friends ✨To build a good community, you need strict rules. People subconsciously love rules because it builds a better interconnected community. ✨What is an addiction? We are inherently addicted to anything that brings a dopamine… eating, seeing her friends, working out… What makes it an addiction is if it gets in the way of doing what is important for us. ✨Let yourself sit with the emotions. Especially nowadays we can ignore emotions by doom scrolling on social media, sleeping or like distracting ourselves… The book teaches us about the importance of sitting with your emotions and seeing your negative emotions as you might see a child crying. You might not fully understand them, but you can empathize with them. #selfhelpbooks #selfhelp #dopaminenation #dopamine #nonfiction #booktoker #bookreview #dopaminedetox #booksummary #SelfImprovement #selfdevelopment
