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How to Break Up with Your Phone

How to Break Up with Your Phone

By Catherine Price

How to Break Up with Your Phone. Ten Speed Press, 2018.

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18 mins read

15 Key insights

A brief summary of How to Break Up with Your Phone

A thirty-day plan for taking back control of your phone and your life, including tips for customizing how and when you use your mobile device so that you don’t have to abandon it altogether.

Key insights in How to Break Up with Your Phone

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What do you get from this book? The causes of cell phone addiction and how you can overcome it
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By overusing our phones we are giving them control over our lives when it should be the other way around
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Catherine learned through personal experience that cell phones can be unhealthy and developed a plan to fight her addiction
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Dopamine activates our cravings for cell phones, and designers purposely create apps to trigger this pleasure-inducing chemical
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Humans have certain quirks that social media sites exploit to draw us in and gain valuable information
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Multitasking hurts your performance and can make negative alterations to your brain
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Our dwindling attention spans and reduced capacity for memory are the result of distraction overload
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Blue light is messing with our sleep patterns, but mindfulness techniques can help us overcome the issue
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Week 1 builds awareness of your phone usage and helps you reclaim some free time
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Week 2 is about acknowledging your bad habits and replacing them with good ones
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Week 3 utilizes mindfulness exercises that help you relearn how to focus
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Take back control of your digital world and real life in week 4
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Summary of the key insights
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read How to Break Up with Your Phone

Teens and tweens • parents • work-a-holics • tech-obsessed adults • anyone who has felt addicted to their phone

About the author of How to Break Up with Your Phone

Catherine Price is a respected science journalist, consultant, and speaker who won the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Popular Science, and TED Talk. Price is also the founder of Screen/Life Balance, a program dedicated to supporting people who want better equilibrium between their real life and their virtual one.

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