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Loading... How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan To Take Back Your Lifeby Catherine Price
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) teejayhanton | Mar 22, 2024 |   ) pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 | ) Leann | Jun 27, 2023 | ) thewestwing | Aug 12, 2022 | Downgrading the stars because most of her beginning information seems to be drawn from Alter's [b:Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked|30962055|Irresistible The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked|Adam Alter|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1479719623l/30962055._SY75_.jpg|51577230]. The plan for breaking up with your phone is unique... but that's only half of the book. Decent research and planning presented here. Not a stellar piece of writing, but it does what it sets out to do and presented me with options for further research and some interesting ideas for breaking some habits. I wouldn't say I was terribly addicted... But I do have some symptoms. :) And I don't want my children to do what I do (I've seen enough almost addicted tots that I'm wary of children seeing technology too early). So I'm going to put some of this into practice. (  ) OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
Do you find yourself reaching for your phone first thing in the morning? All day long? Right before you go to sleep? You just might be addicted to it. Price has provided a manual for breaking addiction to your smartphone or any other wireless mobile device (jokingly, if slightly disturbingly, referred to as WMD). In the first part of the book, Price lays out the multiple ways this addiction can be harmful and result in anything from poor sleep to adult-onset ADHD. Probably most commonly, the devices commandeer our attention, keeping us from being present in the moment while also curtailing our productivity and creativity. The second half of the book is a 30-day guide to breaking up with your phone. Starting with downloading a usage-tracking app and ending with a 24-hour phast (phone fast), Price lays out a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love. The style doesn’t make for riveting reading, but as a self-help manual, this does the trick.
Self-Improvement.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. 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 â??just to check,â?ť 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 phoneâ??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 upâ??and then make upâ??with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good. Youâ??ll 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. Youâ??ll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back No library descriptions found. |
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