Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-05-03
Books mentioned on How To Rewire Your Brain To Take More Risks - Alex Hutchinson - #936
Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist, former physicist, and an author. Why are humans wired to explore?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dopamine Nation
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD is a non-fiction book that explores how modern abundance leads to compulsive overconsumption and how understanding brain chemistry can help people overcome behavioral and substance addictions.
Discussed“You know, there's a really interesting book by uh Anna Lumpkkey, Dopamine Nation, which really gets into the uh the addictive elements of dopamine.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Endure
“Uh I I wrote a book about endurance in 2018. And this is not intended as a gratuitous plug for that book, but the the the book did well and it was the culmination of about 10 years, let's say, of really focusing in on the science of endurance.”