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I continue with Dopamine Nation and it's many insights on addiction.
Chapter 6 on truth
1. Anything that stimulates may become addictive. This includes anger and feelings of victimhood.
Addiction takes away responsibility.
Being addicted to the roots of their suffering keeps the angry and the victim exactly where they are, without improvement.
2. Radical honesty.
Vocally self disclosing oneself to a higher being, oneself and someone else allows one to begin the steps of self awareness and responsiblity.
3. Flaw focusing.
Focusing on someone else's flaws promotes victimhood and irresponsibility.
We are all imperfect.
It is also not someone else's responsibility to make us and our relationship better.
Taking up self responsibility immediately improves our condition.
We should recognize our's and other's gifts. Good brings us forward and happiness, while bad holds us back and inflicts suffering.
4. Disconnected between our truth and who we pretend to be.
When our lived experience diverges from our projected image, we are prone to feel detached and unreal, as fake as the false images we’ve created. Psychiatrists call this feeling derealization and depersonalization. It’s a terrifying feeling, which commonly contributes to thoughts of suicide. After all, if we don’t feel real, ending our lives feels inconsequential.
The antidote to the false self is the authentic self.
5.
Truth-telling engenders a plenty mindset, and willingness to delay gratification and gain greater goods.
Lying engenders a scarcity mindset, which leads to immediacy and an unwillingness to invest for the future.
Reliability engenders confidence.
honesty enhances awareness, creates more satisfying relationships, holds us accountable to a more authentic narrative, and strengthens our ability to delay gratification. It may even prevent the future development of addiction.
I continue with Dopamine Nation and it's many insights on addiction.
Chapter 6 on truth
1. Anything that stimulates may become addictive. This includes anger and feelings of victimhood.
Addiction takes away responsibility.
Being addicted to the roots of their suffering keeps the angry and the victim exactly where they are, without improvement.
2. Radical honesty.
Vocally self disclosing oneself to a higher being, oneself and someone else allows one to begin the steps of self awareness and responsiblity.
3. Flaw focusing.
Focusing on someone else's flaws promotes victimhood and irresponsibility.
We are all imperfect.
It is also not someone else's responsibility to make us and our relationship better.
Taking up self responsibility immediately improves our condition.
We should recognize our's and other's gifts. Good brings us forward and happiness, while bad holds us back and inflicts suffering.
4. Disconnected between our truth and who we pretend to be.
When our lived experience diverges from our projected image, we are prone to feel detached and unreal, as fake as the false images we’ve created. Psychiatrists call this feeling derealization and depersonalization. It’s a terrifying feeling, which commonly contributes to thoughts of suicide. After all, if we don’t feel real, ending our lives feels inconsequential.
The antidote to the false self is the authentic self.
5.
Truth-telling engenders a plenty mindset, and willingness to delay gratification and gain greater goods.
Lying engenders a scarcity mindset, which leads to immediacy and an unwillingness to invest for the future.
Reliability engenders confidence.
honesty enhances awareness, creates more satisfying relationships, holds us accountable to a more authentic narrative, and strengthens our ability to delay gratification. It may even prevent the future development of addiction.