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Dr. Alok Kanojia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1653 total appearances

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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

You need to be like meditating for an hour a day and stay off your cell phone the first 15 minutes of the day and make sure you buy this clothing and make sure you look like this and make sure you use this and make sure be something that you are not. Nothing on the Internet tells you, hey, you're fine just the way you are. It's totally cool.

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

You have advertisers, you have marketers, you have AI that are measuring all these algorithms, figuring out what you want, figuring out what your weakness is. There was that whole scandal where, you know, Target or whatever figured out that people were pregnant before they knew and started mailing them catalogs. Right.

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

You have advertisers, you have marketers, you have AI that are measuring all these algorithms, figuring out what you want, figuring out what your weakness is. There was that whole scandal where, you know, Target or whatever figured out that people were pregnant before they knew and started mailing them catalogs. Right.

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

You have advertisers, you have marketers, you have AI that are measuring all these algorithms, figuring out what you want, figuring out what your weakness is. There was that whole scandal where, you know, Target or whatever figured out that people were pregnant before they knew and started mailing them catalogs. Right.

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 like people know and the Internet knows about you and it tries to create dissatisfaction with who you are. And then what it does is tells you, buy this thing and we'll fix that dissatisfaction. So if you look at this, basically it starts with a moving away from yourself and ignoring yourself. And then that gets amplified now that I'm unhappy.

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 like people know and the Internet knows about you and it tries to create dissatisfaction with who you are. And then what it does is tells you, buy this thing and we'll fix that dissatisfaction. So if you look at this, basically it starts with a moving away from yourself and ignoring yourself. And then that gets amplified now that I'm unhappy.

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 like people know and the Internet knows about you and it tries to create dissatisfaction with who you are. And then what it does is tells you, buy this thing and we'll fix that dissatisfaction. So if you look at this, basically it starts with a moving away from yourself and ignoring yourself. And then that gets amplified now that I'm unhappy.

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 the reason that you're unhappy, by the way, is you never listened to yourself in the first place, right? Because you chose a career based on what people chose you to do instead of actually doing something that you found joyous. And that was naturally motivating. Like you would have worked your off if you like it. There's a disconnect. And now you feel a little bit empty.

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 the reason that you're unhappy, by the way, is you never listened to yourself in the first place, right? Because you chose a career based on what people chose you to do instead of actually doing something that you found joyous. And that was naturally motivating. Like you would have worked your off if you like it. There's a disconnect. And now you feel a little bit empty.

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 the reason that you're unhappy, by the way, is you never listened to yourself in the first place, right? Because you chose a career based on what people chose you to do instead of actually doing something that you found joyous. And that was naturally motivating. Like you would have worked your off if you like it. There's a disconnect. And now you feel a little bit empty.

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

You don't know what you're doing. And then along comes the internet says, hey, that emptiness that you've got, Use this body wash and it'll go away. Sign up for our course and we'll help you find the career of your dreams. And then it only amplifies it.

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

You don't know what you're doing. And then along comes the internet says, hey, that emptiness that you've got, Use this body wash and it'll go away. Sign up for our course and we'll help you find the career of your dreams. And then it only amplifies it.

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

You don't know what you're doing. And then along comes the internet says, hey, that emptiness that you've got, Use this body wash and it'll go away. Sign up for our course and we'll help you find the career of your dreams. And then it only amplifies it.

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 so the more that we get disconnected from ourselves, the harder it becomes to find our purpose because the world can't tell you what your purpose is. They've been doing it and you've been listening and look at where it got you. So the way to find purpose is to fundamentally reconnect with yourself. And that becomes hard because you don't like what's in there, right?

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 so the more that we get disconnected from ourselves, the harder it becomes to find our purpose because the world can't tell you what your purpose is. They've been doing it and you've been listening and look at where it got you. So the way to find purpose is to fundamentally reconnect with yourself. And that becomes hard because you don't like what's in there, right?

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 so the more that we get disconnected from ourselves, the harder it becomes to find our purpose because the world can't tell you what your purpose is. They've been doing it and you've been listening and look at where it got you. So the way to find purpose is to fundamentally reconnect with yourself. And that becomes hard because you don't like what's in there, right?

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

Because you have ignored yourself for a while and you're not super happy with the person that you are deep down inside. And you recognize that there are some weaknesses that you try to keep at bay because other people sometimes see them too. And they're like, hey, you should really drink less. And you're like, no, I'm fine. It's not a problem. And then that evokes that denial. Right.

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

Because you have ignored yourself for a while and you're not super happy with the person that you are deep down inside. And you recognize that there are some weaknesses that you try to keep at bay because other people sometimes see them too. And they're like, hey, you should really drink less. And you're like, no, I'm fine. It's not a problem. And then that evokes that denial. Right.

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

Because you have ignored yourself for a while and you're not super happy with the person that you are deep down inside. And you recognize that there are some weaknesses that you try to keep at bay because other people sometimes see them too. And they're like, hey, you should really drink less. And you're like, no, I'm fine. It's not a problem. And then that evokes that denial. Right.

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 really starts with connecting back with yourself. And we know because pornography addiction, one of the two variables that correlates with pornography addiction is meaninglessness in life. So if we're really thinking about overcoming that addiction, you have to have a good enough reason to resist all those impulses. You can't just cure addiction in a vacuum.