How to Break Up with Your Phone
The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
About the book
Award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a hands-on plan for breaking up with a smartphone and then making up with it on better terms. The aim is not to give the phone up but to build a long-term relationship with it that actually feels good. Price shows that phones and apps are built to be addictive and argues that the hours spent on them harm concentration, deep thinking and the forming of new memories. Readers then make tailored changes to their settings, apps, environment and mindset in order to regain control of their lives, both on the phone and off it.
David Heinemeier Hansson, who says he uses his phone too much, credited it with giving him the motivation to try harder to use it less.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (Co-Founder/Basecamp)
I don’t know a lot of people in our business who feels completely at ease with how much they use their phone. After years and years of a tiny minority trying to get our attention about the dangers of phone addiction, it seems like the idea is finally getting a larger audience. I’m certainly in that camp. I use my phone too much, and I’d like to use it less.
This book gave me the motivation to try harder to actually do something about it. There weren’t any novel arguments or statistics I hadn’t heard before, but recounting them all in one place provided the final push to finally do something. This kicked off a thorough review of not just how much time I spend on my phone, but reviewing what that usage has done to both my capacity for concentration and my motivation to go deeper on topics. I didn’t like the conclusions I came to.
So I’ve started taking more sabbaticals from my phone and the addictive apps on it. I credit this book for finally getting that going.
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