Book Picks - How to Break Up With Your Phone, by Catherine Price

"To design a more joyous life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone...Price offers an accessible and clever way to do just that."

Dale Evans, coauthor of Designing Your Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford University

Catherine Price is passionate about helping you reclaim your time! She is well aware of the tough balance between work and life, stress and happiness. 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 feelsgood.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.

Originally from New York City, Catherine Price now lives in Philadelphia, and uses her background as a science journalist to help people question their assumptions, make positive changes in their lives, and see mundane things (e.g. phones, vitamins, The Container Store) in a new, oddly philosophical, light. Her work has appeared in many publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Self, Medium, and Health Magazine, among others. A graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, she is also a recipient of a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Reporting, and winner of the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing. She also created the JOMO project, which stands for "The Joy of Missing Out", a social media based movement to help people stress less and live more, and share their experiences online.

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