{"id":87857,"date":"2024-03-06T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87857"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:46:32","slug":"ted-gioia-on-escaping-from-the-trap-of-dopamine-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/ted-gioia-on-escaping-from-the-trap-of-dopamine-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Gioia on escaping from the trap of Dopamine Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on this hot issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/how-to-break-free-from-dopamine-culture\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Gioia<\/a> has some suggestions to get out of the habit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/the-state-of-the-culture-2024\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dopamine culture essay<\/a> is still stirring up lots of discussion. And people have their own stories to share.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-37-16-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-37-16-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-37-16-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png 728w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-37-16-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture-480x129.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-37-16-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture-150x40.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-38-17-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-38-17-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-38-17-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture.png 728w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-38-17-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture-480x138.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-17-38-17-How-to-Break-Free-from-Dopamine-Culture-150x43.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same thing is happening everywhere \u2014 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ILYheartst0pper\/status\/1764337198675964414\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concerts<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthroNerd\/status\/1755719478610907293\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">museums<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riahcarkeys\/status\/1622299549061550084\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">work<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/datprettylibra_\/status\/1759303533352951868\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">church<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sweatystartup\/status\/1764126677863366839\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driving<\/a>, or even at a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolnababee\/status\/1763403508739375567\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">funeral<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s even worse when people don&#8217;t even try to multitask, instead abandoning essential life tasks\u2014because of the compulsion to scroll.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now heard from<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who scroll instead of sleeping<\/li>\n<li>People who scroll instead of engaging in physical activity<\/li>\n<li>People who scroll instead of finding a life partner, or connecting with flesh-and-blood people<\/li>\n<li>People who scroll instead of gaining skills, finding a job, and pursuing a vocation<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Keep-scrolling.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Keep-scrolling.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87860\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I originally focused on the impact on arts and creativity\u2014because that&#8217;s the world I live in. I was worried that people had no patience for a movie or concert or book, because they can only digest stimuli in 15-second bursts.<\/p>\n<p>But I now see that the problem is much, much bigger.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost quaint to worry about these screen zombies not reading books. The simple fact is that, increasingly, their entire life is suffering because of a technology shift imposed on them by Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>These addictive and compulsive behaviors are troubling. But even more disturbing is how the largest corporations in the world are investing billions in promoting and accelerating this compulsive use of their tech tools.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/largest-companies-by-market-cap\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 largest companies in the world<\/a>, half of them are trying to create this addictive relationship to technology. The days when the dealer in addiction had to hide in the shadows are over. They now operate freely in your home, and every other sphere of your life.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/13-observations-on-ritual\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I promised to offer concrete suggestions<\/a> for dealing with this. Some of these are listed below. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on this hot issue, Ted Gioia has some suggestions to get out of the habit: My dopamine culture essay is still stirring up lots of discussion. And people have their own stories to share. For example: And also: The same thing is happening everywhere \u2014 at concerts, at museums, at work, at church, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,15],"tags":[59,906,547,593],"class_list":["post-87857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-technology","tag-addiction","tag-mentalhealth","tag-smartphones","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mR3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87861,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions\/87861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}