Winning Your Mental Game Secrets from My Twenty-Five Years on the PGA Tour: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Performance in Sports, Work, and Life

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Raise comes a revolutionary five-step guide, packed with practical, science-backed strategies, that shows you how to raise confident, happy kids, while breaking the cycle of overreliance on screens and processed foods. Almost everything you've heard about dopamine is wrong. No, it is not the happiness molecule. No, it does not give us pleasure, but rather gives us motivation. For the first time in history, we are experiencing what is known as “dopamine spikes” inside our brains. These spikes attract us to technology like a magnet, every day, many times a day. Over the past decade, neuroscientists have finally begun to understand how these spikes change our choices, habits, and even our moods. We've learned how dopamine can cause adults and children to engage in activities we don't actually enjoy, activities that may make us feel sad, lonely, anxious, and depressed. When Dr. Mickalene Doucleff, New York Times bestselling author of Hunter, Gatherer, Parenting, decided to tackle her family's screen time and addiction to processed foods, she found that, one by one, scientific studies refuted almost all the claims she'd read in the media about dopamine and the supposed reasons we reach for our phones or gorge ourselves on supplies. Doucleff took this new knowledge of neuroscience and psychology and combined it with her practical experience, putting the reins back in the hands of families: Instead of appliances and food controlling us, we controlled them, and screens and supplies became tools, not burdens. Dopamine Babies offers a practical, five-step guide to habit reshaping, designed specifically for parents and their children. After rediscovering what's most important to your family, you'll learn how to set successful limits on screen use and ultra-processed foods; replacing screen time with equally engaging activities; And removing the stimuli that attract children towards screens and fast food. Finally, celebrate your family's choices before, during, and after trying new hobbies. These five steps weaken the neural pathways created by electronic devices and activate dopamine to your advantage, to encourage children to engage in high-quality activities that reduce anxiety, improve mood, and diversify interests. Dr. Doucleff's research culminates in a four-week plan to create screen-free environments that sustain conversation, focus, sleep and adventure. After reading Dopamine Babies, you will be able to build habits that meet your family's biological and emotional needs, bring a true sense of fulfillment and purpose to their lives, and improve their behavior, happiness, and self-confidence. The Anxious Generation We have alerted you to the dangers of screens, but the demands of the twenty-first century force you to use them anyway. Dopamine Kids is your guide to solving this fundamental problem of our time, and teaching your children how to build a healthy relationship with technology and food.