Dopamine Detox : a short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things

INTRODUCTION
Tell me if this is you:
You know that if you could tackle just one specific task, it would have
a massive impact on your overall levels of productivity. Perhaps it
would improve your chances of earning a promotion. Or perhaps it
would enhance your mental or physical well-being.
But you never seem to start.
Instead of working on your goal first thing in the morning, you end up
checking your emails, looking at your stock portfolio, or scrolling your
Facebook newsfeed instead.
Soon enough, that important task will appear less and less
appealing. You tell yourself you’ll just have one more coffee. Or you’ll
click on just one more YouTube video. But the more you delay your
task, the harder it becomes to get started. It’s as though an invisible
mental barrier had appeared between you and your task, and this
barrier seems impossible to overcome.
Have you ever felt this way?
If so, you’ll greatly benefit from this book. In it, we’ll introduce a
simple method you can use to avoid overstimulation and make it
easier to tackle your key tasks.
So, are you up for the challenge?
In 
Part I. Dopamine and the Role it Plays
, we’ll explain what
dopamine actually is and how it works. After reading this section,
you’ll understand why you can’t stop checking your phone, struggle
to stay away from social media, or binge-watch videos.
In 
Part II. The Problem
, we’ll see why dopamine can be an issue
these days. In this part, you’ll discover how your dopamine
transmitters have been hijacked and why this can be a major
challenge.

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In 
Part III. The Benefits of a Detox
, we’ll review all the reasons a
dopamine detox can be useful. We’ll introduce a number of different
types of dopamine detoxes and we will discuss several
misconceptions regarding dopamine.
In