How to Break Up with Your Phone
The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
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How to Break Up with Your Phone
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Rosie Jones
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Catherine Price
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Is your phone the first thing you reach for when you wake up? And the last thing you see before you sleep? Do you find the hours slip away as you idly scroll through your social media timeline? In 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 Phone is a smart, practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days - and take back your life in the process. Recent studies have shown that spending extended time on our phones affects our ability to form new memories, think deeply, focus and absorb information, and the hormones triggered every time we hear our phones buzz both add to our stress levels and are the hallmark signs of addiction.
In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning science journalist Catherine Price explores the effects that 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?
Over the course of 30 days, Catherine will guide you through an easy-to-follow plan that enables you to identify your goals, priorities and bad habits, tidy your apps, prune your email and take time away. Lastly, you will create a new, healthier relationship with your phone and establish habits and routines to ensure this new relationship sticks.
You don't have to give up your phone forever. Instead you will be more mindful not only of how you use your phone but also about how you choose to spend the precious moments of your life.
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- J. Buchan
- 28-01-22
Excellent - highly recommended guide to using you
Even though I am listening on my phone (irony!) I really enjoyed this book. It provides a sensible and reasonable plan to improve your relationship with your phone
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- Adam Hards
- 06-03-18
Very informative, helpful and an easy listen
I had an idea of the damage smart phones do to our minds but this book really does a great job of explaining how and why then goes on to help the listener understand how they can reverse the damage. I've not started the process that this book uses to break up with your phone yet but I'm already putting into practice some of the steps and I can honestly say that it's making me fell better and more aware. Especially on the commute and spending time with my family
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- deldel1
- 08-02-24
some good tips
Some great tips to help phone use... only problem is, hasn't worked, still addicted to my phone
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- Anon
- 29-01-21
Everyone with a smart phone will learn something
This is so worthwhile reading, I'm excited about my future now. My mobile had become central to my life, I have more balance now
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-23
Get precious time back !
Brilliant book ironically I listened to it on my phone ha but I did then purchase a hard copy as I feel it will be easier to follow the process having it written down in front of you. I’ll highly recommend if you want to be free from the rubbish that our phones show us each day and draw us in because time is precious.
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- Luna
- 16-04-21
Fantastic
Very engaging and informative, I have recommended to everyone I know who will listen
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- Alison
- 07-12-22
life changing
I honestly can't recommend this book high enough. Just do it - you won't regret it.
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- Liz
- 18-01-23
Life changing
So critically important, terrifying but also full of hope that we can change and regain our focus.
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- Laura
- 11-06-23
Changed my life
At the beginning of this book, I discovered that my mobile screen time was 32 hours a week average. I nearly cried!
Since then, my weekly screen time is down to 15h a week! I’m basically on 2 hours a day now and that’s mostly just tools like google maps, internet browser and SMS messages and calls.
I am experiencing moments of stillness without reaching for Instagram. I eat my breakfast just looking into the garden at the birds, I can watch a whole film without looking at my phone and pausing it and most importantly, I’m actually spending my time how I want to, not just using it up on my phone! I’m so happy that I’ve finally done this and will encourage everyone I know to use this book!
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- Alisange
- 06-03-18
Full of interesting (and worrying) stats
I really enjoyed it. I think having the paper version would make it easier to do the exercises though.
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