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Ryan Soave

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

That means I can't control my life. But really defining where you're powerless is the first step in finding great power. Because if I just keep going out every day and I start fighting a battle that I'm going to lose every single day, and even if it wasn't addiction, like every day I just go out and I am taking on the five biggest guys on the block when I'm a kid, I'm going to lose that every day.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

That means I can't control my life. But really defining where you're powerless is the first step in finding great power. Because if I just keep going out every day and I start fighting a battle that I'm going to lose every single day, and even if it wasn't addiction, like every day I just go out and I am taking on the five biggest guys on the block when I'm a kid, I'm going to lose that every day.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

I'm not going to start winning until I realize I can't beat them in the way that I'm doing it. So go do something else. Powerless, when we identify where we're powerless, then we can go find great power. And that's where the concept of higher power comes in. And higher power to a lot of people is God and whatever their concept of it. Sometimes higher power is just the group of

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

I'm not going to start winning until I realize I can't beat them in the way that I'm doing it. So go do something else. Powerless, when we identify where we're powerless, then we can go find great power. And that's where the concept of higher power comes in. And higher power to a lot of people is God and whatever their concept of it. Sometimes higher power is just the group of

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

I'm not going to start winning until I realize I can't beat them in the way that I'm doing it. So go do something else. Powerless, when we identify where we're powerless, then we can go find great power. And that's where the concept of higher power comes in. And higher power to a lot of people is God and whatever their concept of it. Sometimes higher power is just the group of

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

people in the community. I will see that anywhere from the relationship with God to me and you talking is a higher power. Two heads are better than one. I'm going to be able to reflect to you and you're going to be able to reflect back. I'm going to share with you and you can reflect back to me and help me see things differently and shift a perspective.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

people in the community. I will see that anywhere from the relationship with God to me and you talking is a higher power. Two heads are better than one. I'm going to be able to reflect to you and you're going to be able to reflect back. I'm going to share with you and you can reflect back to me and help me see things differently and shift a perspective.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

people in the community. I will see that anywhere from the relationship with God to me and you talking is a higher power. Two heads are better than one. I'm going to be able to reflect to you and you're going to be able to reflect back. I'm going to share with you and you can reflect back to me and help me see things differently and shift a perspective.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Because a lot of our healing is just a perception change. I'm just going to see things a little bit differently than I did before. So that community and the ability for them to be in service to each other and help each other is a โ€“ I think that's the antithesis of I'm part of this drinking culture.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Because a lot of our healing is just a perception change. I'm just going to see things a little bit differently than I did before. So that community and the ability for them to be in service to each other and help each other is a โ€“ I think that's the antithesis of I'm part of this drinking culture.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Because a lot of our healing is just a perception change. I'm just going to see things a little bit differently than I did before. So that community and the ability for them to be in service to each other and help each other is a โ€“ I think that's the antithesis of I'm part of this drinking culture.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

that's not only unique to alcohol, but because there's such that, you know, there's not usually like a socially acceptable, like you don't see crack advertised on television, right? You see alcohol and it's in, it's in everything. Now we do see gambling on television quite a bit, which is incredible. Yeah, let's talk about gambling.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

that's not only unique to alcohol, but because there's such that, you know, there's not usually like a socially acceptable, like you don't see crack advertised on television, right? You see alcohol and it's in, it's in everything. Now we do see gambling on television quite a bit, which is incredible. Yeah, let's talk about gambling.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

that's not only unique to alcohol, but because there's such that, you know, there's not usually like a socially acceptable, like you don't see crack advertised on television, right? You see alcohol and it's in, it's in everything. Now we do see gambling on television quite a bit, which is incredible. Yeah, let's talk about gambling.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Love that. Gambling. Not everybody that gambles has a gambling problem just like everything else. But when it does become problematic, it's a very challenging disorder to treat. I mean it's โ€“ I don't know where the study came out of, but at one point I had seen some research that said that the highest rates of suicide were among gambling addicts.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Love that. Gambling. Not everybody that gambles has a gambling problem just like everything else. But when it does become problematic, it's a very challenging disorder to treat. I mean it's โ€“ I don't know where the study came out of, but at one point I had seen some research that said that the highest rates of suicide were among gambling addicts.

Huberman Lab
Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave

Love that. Gambling. Not everybody that gambles has a gambling problem just like everything else. But when it does become problematic, it's a very challenging disorder to treat. I mean it's โ€“ I don't know where the study came out of, but at one point I had seen some research that said that the highest rates of suicide were among gambling addicts.