The Art Of Attention — Dr. Jud Brewer Gets Curious About Habits

Dr. Jud Brewer is an addiction psychiatrist who has been investigating habits for over 20 years. He’s the Director of Research and Innovation for the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. He develops in-person and app-based programs applying mindfulness to changing behaviors.

Jud Brewer talks with Daron about navigating everyday addictions with curious awareness and the power of understanding what drives the behaviors we regret but keep repeating.

Reviews

I’m so grateful for people like Dr Jud . This talk just gave me new insights on how to steer my life in a more mindful and attentive way👌🧡

Outstanding discussion. Use curious awareness to understand the experiential reality of habitual reactions and perceived benefits in real time and visualizations of future events. ❤️🙏

Very interesting material. I enjoyed the relaxed interview format and will practice the suggestions. Thank you much 🙏

Am I summarizing correctly?
By paying attention to our own body sensations and our own feelings and thoughts as we are actually Performing a habit that is not serving us, helps us to reduce the reward we get. So over time that habit becomes less important to us.