25 Books like Scarcity Brain

The Craving Mind

by Judson Brewer • 2017

One simple brain loop hooks us on cigarettes, smartphones, and love. The way out isn't willpower.

3.68

5k+

🧠 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Digital Habits 🧬 Dopamine

The Craving Mind 97%

One simple brain loop hooks us on cigarettes, smartphones, and love. The way out isn't willpower.

by Judson Brewer 2017

3.68

5k+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Digital Habits 🧬 Dopamine

Recupera tu mente, reconquista tu vida

by Marian Rojas Estapé • 2024

A neuroscience-based plan to starve your dopamine addictions and feel alive again.

4.27

5k+

🧠 Dopamine Detox 📱 Digital Detox 🧘 Attention Restoration

Recupera tu mente, reconquista tu vida Summary

Recupera tu mente, reconquista tu vida 96%

A neuroscience-based plan to starve your dopamine addictions and feel alive again.

by Marian Rojas Estapé 2024

4.27

5k+ ratings

🧠 Dopamine Detox 📱 Digital Detox 🧘 Attention Restoration

Video Game Addiction

by Henry Lee • 2014

Sell the console, delete the accounts, identify your triggers. A plan for quitting gaming for good.

4.40

🎮 Digital Addiction 🧠 Behavioral Addictions 🩹 Addiction Recovery

Video Game Addiction 96%

Sell the console, delete the accounts, identify your triggers. A plan for quitting gaming for good.

by Henry Lee 2014

4.40

5 ratings

🎮 Digital Addiction 🧠 Behavioral Addictions 🩹 Addiction Recovery

The Attention Fix

by Anders Hansen • 2024

Your brain was built for hunting, not scrolling. The mismatch explains why you cannot focus.

3.89

359

🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📱 Digital Attention 📵 Phone Addiction

The Attention Fix 95%

Your brain was built for hunting, not scrolling. The mismatch explains why you cannot focus.

by Anders Hansen 2024

3.89

359 ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📱 Digital Attention 📵 Phone Addiction

The Biology of Desire

by Marc Lewis • 2015

Addiction is desire turned automatic, not disease. What the brain learned, it can unlearn.

4.09

2k+

🧠 Addiction Psychology 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🔁 Habit Formation

The Biology of Desire 95%

Addiction is desire turned automatic, not disease. What the brain learned, it can unlearn.

by Marc Lewis 2015

4.09

2k+ ratings

🧠 Addiction Psychology 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🔁 Habit Formation

Irresistible

by Adam Alter • 2017

The apps in your pocket are as carefully engineered for addiction as any casino game.

3.85

13k+

🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Tech Addiction 👀 Attention Economy

Irresistible 95%

The apps in your pocket are as carefully engineered for addiction as any casino game.

by Adam Alter 2017

3.85

13k+ ratings

🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Tech Addiction 👀 Attention Economy

Dopamine Nation

by Anna Lembke • 2021

Too much pleasure backfires. A psychiatrist on why your brain's reward system needs less, not more.

3.88

89k+

🧠 Dopamine Neuroscience 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📈 Hedonic Adaptation

Dopamine Nation 95%

Too much pleasure backfires. A psychiatrist on why your brain's reward system needs less, not more.

by Anna Lembke 2021

3.88

89k+ ratings

🧠 Dopamine Neuroscience 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📈 Hedonic Adaptation

Habits of a Happy Brain

by Loretta Graziano Breuning • 2015

Four mood chemicals evolved for survival, not happiness. The 45-day protocol to retrain them all.

4.01

6k+

🧠 Brain Chemistry 🔁 Habit Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch

Habits of a Happy Brain 95%

Four mood chemicals evolved for survival, not happiness. The 45-day protocol to retrain them all.

by Loretta Graziano Breuning 2015

4.01

6k+ ratings

🧠 Brain Chemistry 🔁 Habit Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch

How to Break Up with Your Phone

by Catherine Price • 2018

The 30-day plan that unhooks your brain from the device designed to keep it hooked.

3.91

22k+

🧭 Digital Detox 📱 Smartphone Addiction 🗣️ Social Media Critique

How to Break Up with Your Phone 95%

The 30-day plan that unhooks your brain from the device designed to keep it hooked.

by Catherine Price 2018

3.91

22k+ ratings

🧭 Digital Detox 📱 Smartphone Addiction 🗣️ Social Media Critique

Hard to Break

by Russell A. Poldrack • 2021

Dopamine doesn't just feel good. It builds habits that your conscious mind can't override.

3.57

169

🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience 🔄 Habit Formation 💉 Dopamine And Reward

Hard to Break 95%

Dopamine doesn't just feel good. It builds habits that your conscious mind can't override.

by Russell A. Poldrack 2021

3.57

169 ratings

🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience 🔄 Habit Formation 💉 Dopamine And Reward

Rewire

by Richard O'Connor • 2014

Mindfulness is not just calm. It is the pause that lets you outvote your self-destructive autopilot.

3.82

2k+

🧷 Addiction Recovery 🔄 Habit Change 💣 Self-Sabotage

Rewire 94%

Mindfulness is not just calm. It is the pause that lets you outvote your self-destructive autopilot.

by Richard O'Connor 2014

3.82

2k+ ratings

🧷 Addiction Recovery 🔄 Habit Change 💣 Self-Sabotage

Stop Reading the News

by Rolf Dobelli • 2019

You are not informed. You are addicted. The case for quitting news entirely.

3.71

4k+

📰 Media Criticism 📵 Digital Minimalism 🧠 Attention Management

Stop Reading the News 94%

You are not informed. You are addicted. The case for quitting news entirely.

by Rolf Dobelli 2019

3.71

4k+ ratings

📰 Media Criticism 📵 Digital Minimalism 🧠 Attention Management

The Science of Sin

by Jack Lewis • 2018

Lust, greed, and wrath are not moral failures. They're brain states, and that changes everything.

3.60

230

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🚦 Impulse Control

The Science of Sin 94%

Lust, greed, and wrath are not moral failures. They're brain states, and that changes everything.

by Jack Lewis 2018

3.60

230 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🚦 Impulse Control

Supernormal Stimuli

by Deirdre Barrett • 2010

Giant fake eggs fool geese. Junk food, screens, and porn pull the same trick on you.

3.69

391

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎣 Instinct Hijacking

Supernormal Stimuli 94%

Giant fake eggs fool geese. Junk food, screens, and porn pull the same trick on you.

by Deirdre Barrett 2010

3.69

391 ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎣 Instinct Hijacking

The Hacking of the American Mind

by Robert H. Lustig • 2017

Your brain's pleasure and happiness circuits are separate. Industry amplifies one, mutes the other.

4.09

3k+

🧠 Brain Chemistry 💰 Corporate Manipulation 🍬 Sugar Addiction

The Hacking of the American Mind Summary

The Hacking of the American Mind 94%

Your brain's pleasure and happiness circuits are separate. Industry amplifies one, mutes the other.

by Robert H. Lustig 2017

4.09

3k+ ratings

🧠 Brain Chemistry 💰 Corporate Manipulation 🍬 Sugar Addiction

Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

by Douglas T. Kenrick • 2022

Your brain is built for the Stone Age; the modern world has learned every button to push.

3.83

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🪨 Modern Mismatch 🧱 Environment Design

Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain Summary

Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain 94%

Your brain is built for the Stone Age; the modern world has learned every button to push.

by Douglas T. Kenrick 2022

3.83

46 ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🪨 Modern Mismatch 🧱 Environment Design

The Art of Bitfulness

by Nandan Nilekani • 2022

Phones exploit your psychology by design. Three modes that make deep focus the easy choice.

4.21

128

🧘 Digital Wellness 📉 Attention Economy 🔄 Habit Design

The Art of Bitfulness 94%

Phones exploit your psychology by design. Three modes that make deep focus the easy choice.

by Nandan Nilekani 2022

4.21

128 ratings

🧘 Digital Wellness 📉 Attention Economy 🔄 Habit Design

Mean Genes

by Terry Burnham • 2000

Overeating, overspending, cheating: your genes want all three. The science of overriding them.

3.85

1k+

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 😊 Hedonic Adaptation

Mean Genes 94%

Overeating, overspending, cheating: your genes want all three. The science of overriding them.

by Terry Burnham 2000

3.85

1k+ ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 😊 Hedonic Adaptation

The Distracted Mind

by Adam Gazzaley • 2016

Your brain treats information like food. Smartphones exploit that instinct relentlessly.

3.70

1k+

🎯 Attention Management 📱 Digital Distraction 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Distracted Mind 94%

Your brain treats information like food. Smartphones exploit that instinct relentlessly.

by Adam Gazzaley 2016

3.70

1k+ ratings

🎯 Attention Management 📱 Digital Distraction 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Find Your Focus Zone

by Lucy Jo Palladino • 2007

Boredom and frenzy both kill focus. Train your brain to find the sweet spot between them.

3.91

428

🧠 Attention Management 📱 Digital Distraction ❤️ Emotional Regulation

Find Your Focus Zone 94%

Boredom and frenzy both kill focus. Train your brain to find the sweet spot between them.

by Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

3.91

428 ratings

🧠 Attention Management 📱 Digital Distraction ❤️ Emotional Regulation

Attention

by Casey Schwartz • 2020

Adderall promised perfect focus. Her addiction revealed an economy that profits from destroying it.

3.12

394

🏪 Attention Economy 💊 Prescription Stimulants 📱 Digital Distraction

Attention 94%

Adderall promised perfect focus. Her addiction revealed an economy that profits from destroying it.

by Casey Schwartz 2020

3.12

394 ratings

🏪 Attention Economy 💊 Prescription Stimulants 📱 Digital Distraction

Your Brain on Porn

by Gary Wilson • 2014

Internet porn overloads ancient brain wiring. The result: sexual dysfunction in healthy young men.

4.21

8k+

🎬 Porn Addiction 💻 Internet Addiction 🧠 Brain Reward

Your Brain on Porn 94%

Internet porn overloads ancient brain wiring. The result: sexual dysfunction in healthy young men.

by Gary Wilson 2014

4.21

8k+ ratings

🎬 Porn Addiction 💻 Internet Addiction 🧠 Brain Reward

The User's Guide to the Human Mind

by Shawn T. Smith • 2011

Your brain is a prehistoric operating system. The manual for debugging its anxious, neurotic code.

4.02

312

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧘 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

The User's Guide to the Human Mind Summary

The User's Guide to the Human Mind 94%

Your brain is a prehistoric operating system. The manual for debugging its anxious, neurotic code.

by Shawn T. Smith 2011

4.02

312 ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧘 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

Attention Span

by Gloria Mark • 2023

Screen attention spans dropped from 150 seconds to 47. Why, and how to restore them.

3.52

2k+

🖥️ Digital Attention ⚡ Interruption Management 📱 Screen Habits

Attention Span 94%

Screen attention spans dropped from 150 seconds to 47. Why, and how to restore them.

by Gloria Mark 2023

3.52

2k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Attention ⚡ Interruption Management 📱 Screen Habits

The Alcohol Experiment

by Annie Grace • 2018

One drink demands the next. A 30-day experiment to break the chemical loop, no willpower needed.

4.33

3k+

✨ Sobriety Journeys 💥 Habit Disruption 🧠 Cognitive Reframing

The Alcohol Experiment 93%

One drink demands the next. A 30-day experiment to break the chemical loop, no willpower needed.

by Annie Grace 2018

4.33

3k+ ratings

✨ Sobriety Journeys 💥 Habit Disruption 🧠 Cognitive Reframing

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