Sunday Insider - Edition #64

The Daily Habit For Doers

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." 

- John Lennon

Here’s some stuff that inspired us this last week. 

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Listen: Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Huberman Lab Podcast #33

In this episode, Dr. Huberman interviews Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lembke is a psychiatrist expert in treating addictions of all kinds: drugs, alcohol, food, sex, video games, gambling, food, medication, etc. Dr. Lembke is also an expert in the opioid crisis and the author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. 

Drs. Huberman and Lembke discuss the biology and psychology of why people become addicted to certain substances and behaviors and the key role that our “dopamine balance” plays in creating addiction. They also discuss the science and practice of how to conquer addictions, why people relapse and how to avoid relapsing. Dr. Lembke also shares her expertise on topics closely related to addiction, such as community, shame and lying. She explains why telling the truth—even about the most basic things in daily life, adjusts dopamine levels in our brain. 

This episode is important for anyone struggling with addictions of any kind, for their friends and families and health care professionals. It is also for anyone who has defeated addiction and is determined to stay clean. Last but not least, it helps explain why all humans do what we do and how we can all maintain a healthy sense of pleasure seeking in life.

Listen here. 

Read: The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read

After the response to this recent LifeHacker piece, I thought I would explain the system I use to take notes, research books and keep track of anecdotes, stories and info I come across in my work.

This isn’t the perfect system. It might not work for you. All I can say is that since learning it about 7 years ago, it has totally transformed my process and drastically increased my creative output. It’s responsible for helping me publish three books in three years, (along with other books I’ve had the privilege of contributing to), write countless articles published in newspapers and websites, send out my reading recommendations every month, and make all sorts of other work and personal successes possible.

Now to be clear, this is not “my” notecard system. If anything, I use a perverted version of a system taught to me by the genius Robert Greene, when I was his research assistant. What he taught me was neat, clean and orderly. Mine is more of a mess. But it’s still be hugely helpful to me and I think I’m in a unique position to explain this method to people.

I hope it inspires your own method.

Read Here. 

Watch: OUTWORK Everyone By Being Bored

Boredom is something that is lost in society through over stimulation and the constant need to be “busy” rather than productive.  Watch here.

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