How to Break Up With Your Phone | Book Review

I’ll admit, the title sold me on the book. In this technical age, most of us are phone-addicts, and most of us admit it. We realize we need to spend less time sucked into our phones and more time with real people around us, but do we change it? Usually not.

The material in this book was very thorough. For me as a conservative Christian, it had a very strong secular viewpoint with meditation, yoga, and some language that I’d prefer not to read. The information was good, though. It just did have a few other things in there.

This book covers the good, bad, and ugly of the phone. It gives principles to apply and plenty of flexibility for individual scheduling and needs. For someone who uses their phone as a pocket workspace, some suggestions like “demoting to a dumbphone” are not practical. Yet, the author still covers points to consider no matter what level we truly need to use our phones.

For the book to reach its fullest potential, the reader ought to actually do the 30-day plan in the latter half. It is a very small-step plan with easy-to-utilize suggestions.

Overall, a very practical book for today’s techies. I would hesitate to hand it to a teen because of the constant reference to phone addiction being like drug addiction (and several different types of drugs mentioned) as well as a few other words or references.

Some quotes:
“Our phones are like digital Trojan horses.”

“Americans [spend] an estimated average of more than four hours a day on their phones. If you spend four hours a day doing anything, you’re going to get pretty good at it....it’s well worth investigating what skills the hours we’re spending on our phones each day might be training us to develop—and at what cost.”

*I received this book from Blogging for Books and happily provided my honest review*