How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

Catherine Price

kesä 2018 · Penguin Random House Audio · Lukija: Emily Rankin

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Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this 30-day plan is the essential, life-changing guide to setting boundaries with your smartphone.

“The Marie Kondo of brains . . . for the first time in a long time, I’m starting to feel like a human again.”—Kevin Roose, The New York Times

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 and science journalist with a BA in history from Yale University and a master's degree from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She's also a recipient of a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Reporting, a two-time Société de Chimie Industrielle fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an ASME nominee, a 2013 resident at the Mesa Refuge, a fellow in both the Food and Medical Evidence Boot Camps at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and winner of the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing. Her articles and essays have appeared in Best American Science Writing; New York Times; Popular Science; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; San Francisco Chronicle; Washington Post Magazine; Slate; Parade; Salon; Men's Journal; Self; Mother Jones; and Health magazine, among others.