Stop Checking Your Phone 100 Times a Day
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I used to check my phone before my feet hit the floor.
Not for anything important. Not for emergencies. Just the reflex. Screen on, brightness assaulting my retinas at whatever ungodly hour I'd set my alarm, a quick scroll through notifications I'd collected overnight, most of which could have waited until I was dead and it still wouldn't have mattered.
I'm telling you this because I want you to know where I'm writing from. Not an enlightened mountaintop. Not some digital-detox retreat where people pay four thousand euros to not use Wi-Fi for a week. I'm writing from the other side of a phone addiction that was (if we're being honest, and I always am, sometimes painfully so) significantly worse than average.