Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

This Simple System Breaks Free from Dopamine Addiction

25 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Joe Polish describes his experience in active addiction, explaining that willpower alone could not stop his compulsive behavior; external threats could temporarily halt it, but cravings returned once the threat was removed. He contrasts reacting with responding, suggesting that non-reactivity enables real decision-making.

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And so when I was in active addiction, I literally could not will myself to stop. Like, it was beyond my. You know, people could argue with me. I mean, I could go back. If someone stuck a gun to my head and said, if you do that behavior, I'm going to blow your brains out. I wouldn't have done the behavior. But if they would have taken the gun away from my head, that craving was still there. Once the threat was no longer there, I would have gone right back into the behavior. And that's the interesting thing about control. But when you go through a period of where you're not reacting and you're responding, you actually can then make decisions.