Arthur Brooks
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Appearances Over Time
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There are different ways to do it, but there's tons of science in every area.
If you can get addicted to it, there's science that tells you how to stop.
And then the third is you have to learn how to live with yourself again.
Because you've been distracting yourself from yourself.
If you're addicted to something, it means you didn't like being home in your head.
That's what it comes down to.
And, you know, it's like, I haven't had a drink since I was 38 years old, right?
And I remember in my 30s, I didn't like being home in my head.
Didn't like it.
Didn't want to be there, right?
And so I left, right?
I got a little relief.
I got a little vacation in the bottle.
And it just, it was going nowhere good.
And it was really clear.
And then my dad died.
And, you know, a couple of people I cared about said...
That's your future.
You just saw your future, right?
And so I stopped.