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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The number of people addicted to their phones is rapidly increasing.
Chapter 3: The hormone dopamine can cause addiction, and social media is built to trigger dopamine release.
Chapter 4: The human brain is naturally easily distracted – and phones amplify this.
Chapter 5: Phones interfere with both short-term memory and long-term memory.
Chapter 6: Phones interfere with sleep cycles, leading to worse overall health.
Chapter 7: Breaking up with your phone demands strong motivation and awareness of your phone habits.
Chapter 8: Try uninstalling your social media apps, while remembering this doesn’t mean abandoning social media.
Chapter 9: Make sure your post-phone-breakup time is used thoughtfully and with clear purpose.
Chapter 10: The 30-day breakup plan begins with tech tweaks and shifts in your daily habits.
Chapter 11: The latter half of the 30-day breakup plan adds a trial separation and small final adjustments.
Description
How to Break Up With Your Phone (2018) examines the increasingly visible and often addictive relationships we have with our phones. These blinks consider how we could start using phones with more awareness. If done correctly, we can stop using our devices to provide endless distractions, and instead use them as tools to enhance our lives.
Who Should Listen
- Phone addicts
- Distracted and forgetful types
- Luddites afraid of the impact of modern technology