Syahir’s Comments (group member since Aug 02, 2024)

Syahir’s comments from the JRE Reads (A Joe Rogan Booklist) group.

Hello RPR,
Thanks for making this group. Sorry it took me a while to get my account verified and leave a comment here.
What did you learn from the boom America Before? Would you recommend it to someone who isn’t American like myself?

Anyways, I couldn’t remember exactly how or which episode I first saw Joe Rogan’s podcast, but I remember the feeling. It was like reading something that is totally alien to me - his (and the guest) had exposed things that I never knew of.

For someone who enjoys learning, the podcasts really are some sort of audiobooks (full of opinions, arguments, facts, and jokes too!) but with multiple authors on tonsss of different topics.

The book that I had picked up from one of his episodes is Dopamine Nation and I absolutely am grateful for it. Like most of my generations (20ish), we all are facing addictions today worse than ever. For me it was mostly video games, social media and endless entertainment. Thanks to the book (and JRE for mentioning it), I am doing a lot better now. Instead of 6 hours of screen time daily, I have managed to cut it down by a lot, giving me the time and mental space to experience life better with other activities other than those addictions. I now have the ability to say no to my vices (not all the time obviously) allowing me to say yes to more beneficial activities- reading, hiking and spending time with people!