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Channeling Obsession

12 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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Excerpt from Amber Hollingsworth's YouTube video 'Channeling Obsession' discussing addiction and obsession. Amber defines addiction primarily as obsession — measured by how much one thinks about a behavior rather than the quantity of the behavior — and notes that obsession can be productive, arguing that greatness often requires obsession.

But when you see people do things like they quit the substances, but now they're obsessed with working or they're obsessed with exercise, that is the other common thing that you're going to see happen. And the truth of it is that addiction really is nothing more than obsession. It's not what or how much. It's how much is happening, not how much you're drinking, how much you're thinking about drinking. That's where addiction lies. And obsession isn't always necessarily a bad thing. In fact, no one ever did anything great without being obsessed.