Talal Khalid

“This means that although the brain changes are permanent, we can find new synaptic pathways to create healthy behaviors.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“as we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem.”
― Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

“Roughly three-quarters of jobs are now sedentary, and we’re sitting more every year. Over the last decade, the average American added another hour of daily sitting. Adults now sit for six and a half hours, while kids sit more than eight (the removal of recess hasn’t helped, either).”
― Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

“Not to mention that the entire cycle of anticipation and craving can occur outside the threshold of conscious awareness.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence