The Darker Side of Dopamine

✓ Engage and motivate your audience with groundbreaking scientific findings

✓ Start an inclusive and positive conversation about the distractions of modern life

✓ Create a space to explore important but sensitive topics impacting motivation

✓ Equip your audience with practical strategies to improve focus, motivation and wellbeing

✓ Suitable for audiences of any size, both in person and online

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“Life changing.”

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The Darker Side
of Dopamine

Discover how modern life hijacks our focus, motivation, and attention with this engaging talk from coach, TEDx speaker, and category best-selling author Ryan Parke. Drawing on recent scientific insights and years of coaching experience, this interactive talk explores the brain biology that keeps us constantly checking our phones, repeatedly reading our emails, and endlessly scrolling through social media.

Whether you want to achieve more at work or be more present at home, Ryan will reveal:

The many roles dopamine plays in our brain and daily lives
The brain’s natural balancing act — and what can activate its ‘emergency brake’
Practice-proven tools and tactics to identify distractions and reclaim motivation

Delivered through a blend of science, story, and strategy, this fast-paced keynote is as practical as it is insightful. The Darker Side of Dopamine shows how certain substances and behaviours can turn dopamine — an essential molecule of motivation — into a chemical of craving, and the key ways to avoid it. You will leave with greater confidence in how to survive, thrive and navigate a world that is deliberately designed to distract you.

In the UK version of this talk, Ryan will directly address sensitive topics including addictive substances and adult websites. Please consider whether this talk is suitable for you before attending. Talk content varies by region.