The Ultimate Guide to Reduce Screen Time (part 2)
And an announcement of paid subscribers' benefits
In contrast to what many people believe, the real, long-term solution to phone addiction, doesn’t lie in dumbed-down technology or in improved time management, but in better emotion management.
During the past two years I founded a startup dealing with social media addiction, read hundreds of research papers, conducted dozens of interviews with users, researchers and technologists, and performed a study with 93 participants of an intervention that significantly reduced social media addiction scores. From all my learnings, I have created an actionable guide which I am releasing to Dachi paid subscribers in a series of posts. More specifically, it includes:
Understanding why. In this issue you will understand why you use your phone even when you know it’s bad for you. More specifically, it looks at your triggers, cognitive distortions, and false beliefs that lead you to maladaptive phone usage.
I chose to use a cognitive behavioral model as a framework as it has the most robust body of high-quality evidence as an intervention for digital addictive behaviors.Creating clarity. This issue looks at the three main reasons why people fail at changing their digital habits, and how they all stem from a lack of clarity. You will learn how to avoid them, and will create your personal 1-pager that will guide your future digital habits.
Taking action. This mega-issue is a collection of practices that will help you create healthy habits around your phone. Some of them are practices that you can just set-and-forget, like phone settings. Others, are daily practices that will help you stay mindful of your digital habits.
And much more: my updated phone set-up, my MacBook set-up, a list of the best replacement activities, what the latest research says on the factors that promote social media addiction, how to measure if you are addicted to social media, and more.
The Ultimate Guide to Reduce Screen Time (part 2) - Creating Clarity
This is part 2 of the “The Ultimate Guide to Reduce Screen Time”. If you haven’t read part 1, you can do so here.
In this second installment, you will learn about the three mistakes that lead people to failing in their pursuit of healthy digital habits. Then you will complete a series of reflections that will help you avoid them.
You will leave this issue with a personal one-pager that contains your philosophy on how to behave around technology.
The common mistakes of people changing their phone habits
Whenever people try to change their digital habits, they often fail due to a lack of clarity. More specifically it manifests in the three following mistakes: