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Dr. Alok Kanojia

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Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And then went to med school, was going to do oncology, but then fell in love with psychiatry because I loved the mind. So I ended up training, doing my psychiatry training at Harvard. Big irony that I wound up there. And the interesting thing is when I went back to med school, I didn't care at all about going to Harvard or anything like that. I didn't even look at my grades.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And then went to med school, was going to do oncology, but then fell in love with psychiatry because I loved the mind. So I ended up training, doing my psychiatry training at Harvard. Big irony that I wound up there. And the interesting thing is when I went back to med school, I didn't care at all about going to Harvard or anything like that. I didn't even look at my grades.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And then went to med school, was going to do oncology, but then fell in love with psychiatry because I loved the mind. So I ended up training, doing my psychiatry training at Harvard. Big irony that I wound up there. And the interesting thing is when I went back to med school, I didn't care at all about going to Harvard or anything like that. I didn't even look at my grades.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

So it was really super embarrassing. But I didn't go to the award ceremony like when I graduated and I won two awards. And one of my mentors was like, where are you? Like I was I wanted to present this award. And I was like, I didn't know I was going to win anything. I never looked at my grades. Because I didn't care about grades. I was just like, I'm going to learn medicine.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

So it was really super embarrassing. But I didn't go to the award ceremony like when I graduated and I won two awards. And one of my mentors was like, where are you? Like I was I wanted to present this award. And I was like, I didn't know I was going to win anything. I never looked at my grades. Because I didn't care about grades. I was just like, I'm going to learn medicine.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

So it was really super embarrassing. But I didn't go to the award ceremony like when I graduated and I won two awards. And one of my mentors was like, where are you? Like I was I wanted to present this award. And I was like, I didn't know I was going to win anything. I never looked at my grades. Because I didn't care about grades. I was just like, I'm going to learn medicine.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

That's what I'm here for. So ended up training at Harvard and then started this whole healthy gamer thing. So when I was there in 2015, I went to one of my mentors and I was like, tell me about technology addiction. Like, what are we doing there? And no one really knew anything because everyone was focused on the opioid crisis. So I started getting interested in it as a second year resident.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

That's what I'm here for. So ended up training at Harvard and then started this whole healthy gamer thing. So when I was there in 2015, I went to one of my mentors and I was like, tell me about technology addiction. Like, what are we doing there? And no one really knew anything because everyone was focused on the opioid crisis. So I started getting interested in it as a second year resident.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

That's what I'm here for. So ended up training at Harvard and then started this whole healthy gamer thing. So when I was there in 2015, I went to one of my mentors and I was like, tell me about technology addiction. Like, what are we doing there? And no one really knew anything because everyone was focused on the opioid crisis. So I started getting interested in it as a second year resident.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Started working on technology addiction in 2015. And then I started streaming on the internet. and streaming on Twitch, which is a gaming platform, and started teaching gamers about video game addiction. And someone was once like, isn't that kind of like holding an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a bar?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Started working on technology addiction in 2015. And then I started streaming on the internet. and streaming on Twitch, which is a gaming platform, and started teaching gamers about video game addiction. And someone was once like, isn't that kind of like holding an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a bar?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Started working on technology addiction in 2015. And then I started streaming on the internet. and streaming on Twitch, which is a gaming platform, and started teaching gamers about video game addiction. And someone was once like, isn't that kind of like holding an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a bar?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And I was like, yeah, that's probably where we should hold AA meetings, because that's where the people who have alcohol problems are. And was stunned when Healthy Gamer grew. We were the fastest growing stream on Twitch for about three months.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And I was like, yeah, that's probably where we should hold AA meetings, because that's where the people who have alcohol problems are. And was stunned when Healthy Gamer grew. We were the fastest growing stream on Twitch for about three months.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

And I was like, yeah, that's probably where we should hold AA meetings, because that's where the people who have alcohol problems are. And was stunned when Healthy Gamer grew. We were the fastest growing stream on Twitch for about three months.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Um, and really discovered that people like want to learn about themselves and was really surprised because when I started streaming, I was thinking like, okay, I had done neuroscience research at Harvard for a couple of years too. And so I was like, okay, I'm prepared with like my neuroscience stuff, my psychiatry stuff, my clinical stuff. Like this is what people are going to want, want to learn.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need a Dopamine Detox: The Science Based Way to Master Self Control & Break Addiction Patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Um, and really discovered that people like want to learn about themselves and was really surprised because when I started streaming, I was thinking like, okay, I had done neuroscience research at Harvard for a couple of years too. And so I was like, okay, I'm prepared with like my neuroscience stuff, my psychiatry stuff, my clinical stuff. Like this is what people are going to want, want to learn.