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Anna Lembke

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Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

And then she came back and said that she essentially couldn't function as a high school student without Wi-Fi in the home.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

They change the schedule every day.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

You have to log on every day just to know what class you're supposed to go to.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

So I'm really sad because now we have Wi-Fi and fiber optic, and it makes it a lot harder for me personally to manage my consumption because I'll get into these bad YouTube-watching habits in the evenings.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

You can just imagine.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

But anyway, that's something that we did.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

We bike a lot of places instead of driving.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

In fact, we have one 25-year-old minivan, which has 75,000 miles on it.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

And when my husband tried to re-register for the insurance, they didn't believe us that it only had 75,000 miles.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

They made us get an affidavit.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

You know, I used to think that my life was really hard and that that was the source of my unhappiness.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

But now I actually think that all along my life was actually too easy.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

And that's why I was unhappy.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

So my colleague Rob Malenka here at Stanford is neuroscientist.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

He and his colleagues have shown that oxytocin, which is our love hormone, binds to dopamine releasing neurons in the reward pathway.

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

So that makes a lot of sense because we know when we fall in love, we feel high, right?

Hidden Brain
The Path to Enough

That's a great feeling.