Arthur Brooks

I mean, I think you got to get that looked at, right?

But if you work 16 hours a day and neglect your family, you're going to get a promotion and a raise.

You're going to get rewarded for that.

So there's some addictions that, you know, people actually love because it works in their favor.

It enriches them.

And it actually leads to the world's rewards, which people admire.

So the point is that we have a responsibility to look after ourselves, look after the pathologies that are actually inherent in our behavior, and to see, is it actually making my life better or is it making my life worse, notwithstanding the reaction of the rest of the world?

What does fixing the doom loop look like?

What is fixing?

It means clipping it.

It means cutting it at a particular place.

So...

All addictions, getting out of addictions, they have sort of three steps in common.

It's really, behaviorally, they have three steps in common.

Now, I'm not talking medically.

I'm not talking about the medical interventions because that's different for different things with gambling and drinking and methamphetamine and whatever.

But the three behavioral steps in getting out of an addiction are number one, you got to get pissed.

You got to get pissed.

It's like, this is subjugating me.

I'm in a cage and I'm tired of it.