How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition
The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan
Published on 13. February 2018
240 pages
978-0-399-58113-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 "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. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good.
You'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. You'll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life.
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. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good.
You'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. You'll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life.
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Catherine Price is an author, speaker, consultant, and health and science journalist. Her work has appeared in a multitude of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Popular Science, and she also runs the newsletter-turned-podcast How to Feel Alive. Her speaking engagements include TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and SXSW. Catherine is also the author of Vitamania, Mindfulness: A Journal, The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook, and The Power of Fun.
