How to Break Up with Your Phone
The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Ratings26
Average rating3.8
As someone who averages 8 hours per day on the phone, this was the right book to take me through actionable steps to cut out the things I didn't need and improve my focus and win back lost time.
Very practical, it presents daily exercises to be done in 30 days, so the chapters are grouped by week, with one activity per day. I enjoyed the activities and they really gave me another level of awareness of my relationship with my phone. Sometimes the exercises were just a few questions that made me reflect on my feelings and physical reactions when I use my phone. It was very interesting. The final exercise is to spend 24 hours without a phone and that was also very enriching. I wrote about some of my takeaways here.??
This book had some really good tips to break up with your phone! I'll definitely try the 30 day plan later.
It‘s a quick read (or in my case, listen). I felt it was very informative without being repetitive or dense. The author presents lots of good info and tips. I wish I had a physical copy so that I could reference it. I recommend.
• When I would reach for my phone, I will ask myself why. What is the main reason that I'm picking up the phone?
• Then, ask myself why I need to look RIGHT NOW.
• Is there any important thing I could be doing right now besides checking my phone?
A little book that in the first half gives a good overview on how phone apps are meant to addict us and how they succeeded in just a few years to rewire our brains to form attention-deficit habits, and in the second half takes you through a 30 day mindfulness step-program on how to detach again.
A quick read. I enjoyed the first half, there's nothing too new, but it's always good to be reminded of these points. The second half definitely looks useful, if you're willing to commit. I picked and chose random advice.
I appreciate that the book took a practical approach to the average person's relationship to their smartphone: not suggesting you get rid of it, as it can be a useful tool and source of entertainment, but reassess your relationship with it. Liked the structure, half ‘why it can be bad' and half ‘how you can make it better'. Language could be a bit dramatic, but the scholarship was well sourced. Not crazy about the couple of dieting metaphors.