The Top 10 Addictions of Modern Life

Not all addictions come in bottles or pills. Every day, we reach for our phones, chase notifications, optimize routines, and compare ourselves to curated lives—often without noticing the grip these patterns have on our choices. *The Top 10 Addictions of Modern Life* peels back the surface of daily habits to reveal the subtle loops that shape attention, motivation, and desire in a world engineered for repetition.

JD Arden maps out the most common non-substance compulsions—validation, control, outrage, perfection, speed, comparison, comfort, work, entertainment, and escape—showing how each loop begins, what keeps it running, and how it quietly trades capacity for compulsion. With clear examples and a practical framework, this book invites readers to see the patterns behind their own habits and decide, with new clarity, whether to steer or drift.