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Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-05-03

Chris Williamson & Alex Hutchinson: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #936

How To Rewire Your Brain To Take More Risks - Alex Hutchinson - #936

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Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist, former physicist, and an author. Why are humans wired to explore?

Alex Hutchinson discussed Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Dopamine Nation

    Anna Lembke · at 16:49

    Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke is a prominent exploration of how modern society's constant pursuit of pleasure leads to compulsive overconsumption and mental distress, written by a Stanford medical school psychiatrist and addiction expert.

    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.”
    Alex Hutchinson How To Rewire Your Brain To Take More Risks - Alex Hutchinson - #936 2025-05-03
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Plugged Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
“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.”
Alex Hutchinson How To Rewire Your Brain To Take More Risks - Alex Hutchinson - #936 2025-05-03 Listen at 2:18
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