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Addictions researcher Warren K. Bickel and his colleagues asked people addicted to opioids and healthy controls to complete a story that started with the line: “After awakening, Bill began to think about his future. In general, he expected to . . .” Opioid-addicted study participants referred to a future that was on average nine days long. Healthy controls referred to a future that was on average 4.7 years long. This striking difference illustrates how “temporal horizons” shrink when we’re under the sway of an addictive drug.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
I’m talking about utilizing past successes to fuel you to new and bigger ones. Because in the heat of battle, when shit gets real, we need to draw inspiration to push through our own exhaustion, depression, pain, and misery. We need to spark a bunch of small fires to become the motherfucking inferno.
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Recording our dreams can help us make sense of them later, and the more often we record them, the more likely we are to remember them; just the act of recording dreams sends a signal to the subconscious that they are worth remembering.
The Well-Lived Life
Gladys McGarey and Mark Hyman
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