Is your phone the first thing you reach for when you wake up And thelast thing you see before you sleep Do you find the hours slip away asyou idly scroll through your social media timelineIn short,are you addicted to your phone If so,How to Break Up with Your Phone is here to help.How to Break Up With Your Phoneis a smart,practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobilephone addiction in just 30 days - and take back your life in theprocess. Recent studies have shown that spending extended timeon our phones affects our ability to form new memories,think deeply,focus and absorb information,and the hormones triggered every time wehear our phones buzz both add to our stress levels and are the hallmarksigns of addiction. In How to Break Up with Your Phone,award-winning science journalist Catherine Price explores the effectsthat our constant connectivity is having on our brains,bodies,relationships,and society at large and asks,how much time do you really want to spend on your phone Overthe course of 30 days,Catherine will guide you through aneasy-to-follow plan that enables you to identify your goals,prioritiesand bad habits,tidy your apps,prune your email,and take time away.Lastly,you will create a new,healthier relationship with your phoneand establish habits and routines to ensure this new relationshipsticks. You don't have to give up your phone forever; insteadyou will be more mindful not only of how you use your phone,but alsoabout how you choose to spend the precious moments of your life.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781409182900Number of pages: 192Weight: 160 gDimensions: 124 x 173 x 15 mm
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The most important book I've read in years. Everyone I know needs it now. Life changing.Price'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.By the time I was halfway through following Price's system,I was a convertEntertaining (and also terrifying)... this is a book that should be available on the NHSTo design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up With Your Phone,Price offers an accessible and clever way to do just that.Fascinating,entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner - get rid now.
A slim,insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the tollsmartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health,and apractical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path tomoderation,this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely,ormore urgent. (No,really: after finishing the whole thing in onehorrified sitting,I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friendsand family.)
. . .a comprehensive,step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love.
This book should be number one!
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