How to Break up with Your Phone : The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price (2018, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPotter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10039958112X
ISBN-139780399581120
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038256308

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Book TitleHow to Break Up with Your Phone : the 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicPsychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, Mobile & Wireless Communications, Popular Culture, Self-Management / Time Management, Personal Growth / Success
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology
AuthorCatherine Price
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight5.4 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-058485
Reviews"To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up With Your Phone , Price offers an accessible and clever way to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a better life." -- Dave Evans , coauthor of Designing Your Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program, Stanford University, "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 "A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)" --Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health "Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a healthier relationship with technology--without the fear mongering." -- Refinery29 "The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing." --Sali Hughes, The Pool "Could be one of the most important books to be published in recent times." --9Honey "A comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love." --Booklist "To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up with Your Phone , Price offers an accessible and clever way to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a better life." --Dave Evans, coauthor of Designing Your Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program, Stanford University "Price's book is an invaluable guide of how--in the author's own words--to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber." --Pandora Sykes, journalist and former Fashion Features Editor at The Sunday Times Style "Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner--get rid now." --Will Storr, author of Selfie, "A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)" -- Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health ". . . Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a healthier relationship with technology -- without the fear mongering." -- Refinery29 "The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing." -- Sali Hughes, The Pool ". . . could be one of the most important books to be published in recent times." -- 9Honey ". . .a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love." -- Booklist "To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up with Your Phone , Price offers an accessible and clever way to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a better life." -- Dave Evans, coauthor of Designing Your Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program, Stanford University "Price's book is an invaluable guide of how--in the author's own words--to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber." -- Pandora Sykes, journalist and former Fashion Features Editor at The Sunday Times Style "Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner--get rid now." -- Will Storr, author of Selfie
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal362.1968584
SynopsisThis evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life. "I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book."--Jonathan Haidt Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling--and failed? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up--and then make up--with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good. This engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive. Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It's guaranteed to help you put down your phone--and come back to life., Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. 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.
LC Classification NumberRC569.5.I54P75 2017

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