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Summary of How to Break Up with Your Phone 

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It’s time to be honest. Is your phone the first thing you reach for when you open your eyes? And is it the last thing you look at before you doze off to sleep in the evening. If so, you’re not the only one. The technological age has turned us all into phone slaves! Does this sound like your ongoing battle in life? Catherine Price, an award-winning journalist, is here to help you. With strategies to adopt to break up and slow reconnection with your phone, she aims to help you establish a positive long-term relationship with the chunk of plastic you love so much. In How to Break Up with Your Phone, you will discover why you are addicted to your phone and how the number of hours you commit to it damages your ability to think deeply, focus, and form new memories. “Many of the same feel-good neurochemicals and reward pathways that drive addictions are also released and activated when we check our phones.” ~ Catherine Price

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Breaking up with your phone means putting real-life relationships before those that happen on the screen

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We should all understand something. The point of this summary is not to get you to throw your phone away. In the same way, breaking up with a person doesn’t mean that you won’t have anything to do with all human relationships. Just as “breaking up” with your phone doesn’t translate to trading your smartphone for a rotary dial.

There are many reasons for us to love smartphones. They can double up as a camera, help us keep in touch with family and friends, and have the solution to every question we could ever think to ask. Smartphones allow us to carry out basic activities and tell us about the weather, calendars, and saving our contact lists. How would you remember the names and contacts of hundreds of people without smartphones?
Smartphones simply make our lives easier. But they are not designed to be a replacement for anything or anyone.
Smartphones also make us act like we’re being controlled. We find it hard to watch a movie or get through a stoplight without resisting the urge to pull out our phones.

The few times, when we mistakenly leave them at home or on our desk, we still reach for them anyway and feel worried each time we discover they’re not there.

After a decade of smartphone usage, we’re beginning to suspect that they influence our lives in ways that might not be entirely good. We feel active but inefficient. We are connected but alone. The problem is our relationships with our phones, not the phones themselves. Breaking up with your phone is a way of allowing yourself to stop and think. It means to notice which parts of your relationship work and which don’t. It means establishing limitations between your offline and online lives.

Regardless of who you are or why you chose this summary, breaking up with your phone isn’t a straightforward thing to do. It requires self-reflection and resolution. But as people who are free of their phone addiction can attest, to take charge of your life back from a device that has been precisely manufactured to make it impossible to do so is worth it.

In the following chapters, you’ll discover that not only will breaking up with your phone help you build a healthier relationship with technology, but it will also have an impact on areas of your life that you never guessed your phone could touch.
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Technology designers deliberately manipulate our dopamine responses to make it extremely difficult for us to stop using their products

To make us spend more time on our smartphones, manufacturers control our brains in ways known to accelerate addictive attitudes. These telephone companies use methods that include stimulating a brain chemical called dopamine. Dopamine has many roles, but regarding the subject of addiction, triggering pleasure-related receptors in our brains urges us to associate a specific behavior with rewards. Dopamine excites us, and we like getting excited. Most experiences that motivate the discharge of dopamine are things we’ll want to experience again.
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Every moment we spend scrolling through social media is time spent making money for someone else

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Smartphones place us in a focused state of distraction that creates long-lasting changes in our brains

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Your phone is killing your attention span

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We can change our relationships with our phones and take back our lives

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Do you find yourself staring at your computer for long minutes, unaware of time slipping by? Do you enter a room and suddenly cannot remember why you stepped in the first place? Is it a herculean task for you to sit through ten pages of a book without reaching for your phone? If yes, your focus needs some work and fast.

Actually, yours is not a unique situation. Many adults like you have issues concentrating on a given task. However, in this fast-paced world of ours, you can’t afford to be not focused at all times. Thankfully, this article comes to your rescue! With the tips and tricks from Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey, you will get in the top percent of folks who have mastered the art of concentration.