How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
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Now fully revised and updated, this evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life.
"If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book."-Jonathan Haidt, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation
Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling-and failed? If so, this book is your solution.
In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a hands-on 30-day digital detox guide to breaking up-and then making up-with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.
Now fully revised to reflect advances in the technological landscape, this groundbreaking book features new expert advice and research on the science of addiction, with expanded chapters explaining how social media and algorithms are designed to addict us, impairing our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories; and an updated section on the unique dangers social media poses to children, with brand-new tips on how to protect them.
Also newly expanded is How to Break Up with Your Phone's life-changing, evidence-based 30-day plan that will guide you-and your friends and family-through the process of creating new, healthy relationships with your smartphone, tablet, or other digital devices.
Whether you're seeking refuge from an exhausting news cycle or you're concerned about the negative effects of social media, How to Break Up with Your Phone offers practical solutions. It's guaranteed to help you put down your phone-and come back to life.
Read MorePraise for How to Break Up With Your Phone
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The most important book I've read in years. Everyone I know needs it now. Life changing. - SALI HUGHESPrice's book is an invaluable guide of how - in the author's own words - to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber. - PANDORA SYKESEntertaining (and also terrifying)... this is a book that should be available on the NHS - Emerald StreetThis book should be number one! - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, BBC Radio 2
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