{ "item_title" : "Dopamine Detox", "item_author" : [" Reid Mercer "], "item_description" : "It is late, later than you meant. The thing you opened the phone to do is done, and you are still here, thumb moving, feeding a bright rectangle that feeds you back. You are not learning, not relaxing, not even entertained. And the strangest part is the joylessness: the walk that used to be enough is not enough, the quiet evening feels less like rest than withdrawal. Somewhere the volume on ordinary life got turned down, and you cannot find the knob.This is a book about finding the knob, and it begins by telling you the truth. You have seen the phrase dopamine detox, and most of what travels under that name is plainly wrong. You do not have a tank of dopamine that scrolling has flooded, and you cannot drain it by sitting in a dark room. The molecule is about wanting, not liking. An honest reset is not a chemical cleanse but a behavioral one: lowering the highest-stimulation, lowest-value, most compulsive inputs in your day so ordinary rewards come back up to volume.What you will learn: What a reset actually is, and why the popular version mostly failsHow your reward system got caught, in plain terms grounded in real researchTo audit any habit and tell whether it is feeding you or just farming youA graded protocol, a few hours to a weekend, with no white-knucklingTo sit with boredom and use it, instead of fleeing itTo design a low-stimulation environment so the calm choice is the defaultHow to handle the day you slip, because a slip handled well is only dataNo shame, no thirty-day heroics, no guru language. Just the version that holds up, written for the age of infinite, AI-generated stimulation, where a calm and governable attention is the rare thing the machine cannot replace.Part of the Proven Methods series by Reid Mercer.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/356/9798183562910_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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