Break Up With Your Phone How To Do So

One statement in the book that really hit me discusses time and how much time we lose because of our smartphones.

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Break Up With Your Phone How To Do So

Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed Do you frequently pick it up just to check, only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone--but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely If so, this book is your solution.

Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up--and then make up--with your phone.

Youll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive, and learn how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories.

Youll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life.

It does have some tips near th more The book tends to advocate for moderate or intentional usage (only using when you want to use it for things you enjoy).

It does have some tips near the end if you are looking to stop using a smartphone (like buying a dumb phone, using your simcard in an older phone, etc).

Its broken into two sections: first, the author tries to scare you (on purpose) with statistics, studies, and information about the damaging effects of cellphone usage, and secondly, she shows you how to change your relationships with.

Its all done (even the scary bit) in a positive tone that isnt defeatist or doomsdayish which I really appreciated.

I really hate, for example in a documentary, when the whole doc is saying THATS IT, ALL THE WHALES ARE DYING and youre like god damn what can we do and the doc says THE END.

I also felt like I learned a few really interesting facts about how cellphones and apps are designed to suck us in, and what the effects of being on phones a lot can be.

I dont personally think Im addicted to my phone, but there were definitely some practices I took from the second half of this book that Ive implemented into my life.

The first is that it felt a bit repetitive by the time I got to the end.

I wasnt surprised, its something I find with a lot of this sort of non-fiction, but it still was a little boring.

And secondly, the second section is set up as a 30 day experiment, with a new challenge offered to you every day to try and give you new habits, and I would have way preferred just a list of ideas and tips.

Ive known for quite some time that my phone takes too much attention away from my life, but getting to a healthy balance has.

Ive known for quite some time that my phone takes too much attention away from my life, but getting to a healthy balance has always been an issue.

As soon as I began reading just the first few pages, my eyes were wide and glued.

Im one of those people who usually have my phone in hand right before sleep and its the first thing I grab in the morning.

Part 1 helps you evaluate your phone usage now and how many of us could use a digital detox.

The author discusses why our phones are so addicting, the dangers of social media and how its depressing us, how our phones are changing our brains and killing our attention spans, memory, sleep, and our lives in general.

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