Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction
The Science of Breaking the Loop
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AI Voice Mark Sutherland
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Mark Sutherland
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This isn't a book about being weak. It's about a piece of brain machinery so efficient it once kept you alive — now aimed at a slot machine, a phone feed, a bottle, or a fridge, all engineered by people who understand that machinery better than you do.
Dopamine isn't the "pleasure chemical" you think it is — it's a prediction engine, and uncertainty is what makes it fire hardest. That single correction explains why willpower collapses at 11pm, why a habit quietly turns into something that stops listening to you, and why cutting out one compulsion so often just grows a new one wearing a different mask.
This book takes apart that mechanism piece by piece — the loop, the cues you never notice, the tolerance that keeps moving the target, the exact three stages of a relapse before it happens — and then hands you what actually breaks it: not more discipline, but fewer decisions, better cues, and a life built to outbid the loop instead of fighting it one urge at a time.
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