Book · 2018 · Cell phones
How to break up with your phone
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I get this from a woman named Katherine price who wrote a book that I recommend called how to break up with your phone and she encourages people to ask themselves.
The best things said about it
And so I just finished Catherine Price's how to break up with your phone which has been fantastic and very helpful.
Katherine Price who's been on my podcast the happiness lab a bunch she has this lovely book called How to Break Up with Your Phone where she kind of argues you don't need to break up with your phone but you need to take it like to couples counseling for kind of situations like this with the news and she.
Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price is a practical guide that offers strategies for reducing screen time and fundamentally changing one's relationship with digital devices. The book was widely recommended across several conversational and wellness podcasts. On The Daily Stoic, Dr. Laurie Santos mentioned the title, explaining that Price compares the process not to breaking up entirely, but rather to taking your device to couples counseling to manage stressful habits around the news. Similarly, Dan Harris recommended the book on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, noting that it provides helpful framework and encourages users to ask themselves critical questions about their attention. On The Ezra Klein Show, Jon Favreau also shared that he had just finished reading the publication, describing it as fantastic and very helpful for overcoming screen addiction. Across these shows, guests and hosts praised the book for offering actionable, compassionate advice on reclaiming focus and mental well-being in an increasingly hyper-connected modern world.
Every mention
Dan Harris I get this from a woman named Katherine price who wrote a book that I recommend called how to break up with… 1
“I get this from a woman named Katherine price who wrote a book that I recommend called how to break up with your phone and she encourages people to ask themselves”
Dr. Laurie Santos Katherine Price who's been on my podcast the happiness lab a bunch she has this lovely book called How to B… 1
“Katherine Price who's been on my podcast the happiness lab a bunch she has this lovely book called How to Break Up with Your Phone where she kind of argues you don't need to break up with your phone but you need to take it like to couples counseling for kind of situations like this with the news and she”
Jon Favreau and so I just finished Catherine Price's how to break up with your phone which has been fantastic and very… 1
“and so I just finished Catherine Price's how to break up with your phone which has been fantastic and very helpful”
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Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I bought a book recently called How to Break Up with Your Phone in 30 Days. I made it to day two. I've tried. I've tried myself.”
“one of the most effective things you can do if you're trying to quote break up with your phone as I put it or change your relationship with your phone is to become more aware of when you reach for your phone”
“I say in my book explicitly that psychologists call this intermittent rewards and I call it the reason we date jerks”
“he was like oh hello and I was like I wrote this book I was just talking about your work like I literally had just been talking about his work at a conference”
“so for example I often recommend people experiment with taking a full 24-hour break for their phones as part of the breakup plan in my book”
“who people who go through the breakup plan of my book are like oh my God all right I reclaimed time for my phone now why am I existentially depressed which is what happened to me”
“and then the book we've been talking about is called how to break up with your phone and it is available”