The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
Author: Judson Brewer Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Publish Date: 2017 Status:⏳ Rating: 4.5/5
Nebulas
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 1. Introduction
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 2. Addiction, Straight Up
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 3. Addicted to Technology ❗️
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 4. Addicted to Ourselves
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 5. Addicted to Distraction
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 6. Addicted to Thinking
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 7. Why Is It So Hard to Concentrate—or Is It?
- The Craving Mind Chapter 8. Learning to Be Mean—and Nice ❗️
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 9. On Flow
- The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 10. Training Resilience
Notes
Total: 7
- Operant conditioning
- Eventually we use our creative capabilities to learn to use pleasure as a stress reliever rather than purley for survival
- Subjective bias
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness can allow us to see through our subjective biases
- Addictions are rooted in efforts to avoid or prevent unpleasant feelings or memories
- Mindfulness can allow us to get over bad habits without cognitive effort
- Mindfulness training has been shown to be twice as effective as the gold standard smoking addiction treatment and yeilded a fivefold difference in staying quit