3 Simple Habits To Stop Checking Your Phone When You Don’t Want To

“Make your tech stupider so you can be smarter.”

Aleid ter Weel
ILLUMINATION

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How many times have you picked up your phone in the last hour?

How many times did you slip it from your pocket only to realize minutes or hours of automatic scrolling later that you’ve accomplished nothing, and you feel kinda gross?

I don’t know about you, but scrolling my phone for too long makes me feel like mush after a while.

How much better would it be if you could just have your phone time, not get distracted by it, be done, and move on to something else?

Well, here are three simple habits to help you do just that.

Outsmart Your Smartphone

One of the main reasons we mindlessly grab our phones when we don’t need to is that we have no technology strategy.

Instead, most of us mess around on our phones, waiting for interesting things to happen.

But by not having a plan, you play right in the hand of Big Tech corporations who design their apps in ways that exploit the psychology and neurophysiology of their users into spending more and more time on their platforms.

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Aleid ter Weel
ILLUMINATION

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