Why Do High Achievers Get Addicted? | MindLAB
The Neuroscience of Addiction in High Achievers: When the Same Wiring That Drives Success Drives Destruction High achievers get addicted because the same blunted D2 receptor expression that drives their relentless achievement leaves their reward circuit chronically under-stimulated. The brain keeps seeking increasingly potent inputs — substances, intensities, compulsions — to close a hedonic gap that ordinary rewards cannot fill. This is a neurological architecture, not a character pattern. ...
