by Mark Edge | Dec 16, 2021 | Employee Productivity
1. They worked hard. One week they worked all seven days. 2. Their process for writing songs was relentlessly trial and error. They would pitch ideas to each other, change words and chords, and rehearse them over and over again until they got it right. 3. Compared to...
by Mark Edge | Dec 15, 2021 | Emotional Health
Here’s something that you may not know. Prohibition worked. By the turn of the 20th Century, Americans had an epic problem with alcohol. It was so bad that Americans approved a constitutional amendment eliminating alcohol sales, transportation, and consumption....
by Mark Edge | Dec 9, 2021 | Emotional Health
You are addicted to your smartphone, so what do you do? Anna Lembke is the medical director of Stanford’s Addiction Medicine Program. In her new book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence, she wrote that abstinence is essential to defeating an...
by Mark Edge | Dec 8, 2021 | Emotional Health
In her new book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence, Anna Lembke, the medical director of Stanford’s Addiction Medicine Program, wrote that “[a]ddiction … is the continued and compulsive consumption of a substance or behavior… despite its harm to...
by Mark Edge | Dec 7, 2021 | Emotional Health
It may be dopamine. That is according to Anna Lembke, medical director of Stanford’s Addiction Medicine Program, in her new book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence. I have written on dopamine many times before. What I like about Lembke’s book is...
