How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

by Catherine Price

If our smartphones excel at one thing, it’s making sure we never, ever have to be alone with ourselves.

It’s attention that we didn’t spend on our families, or our friends, or ourselves. And just like time, once we’ve spent attention, we can never get it back.

In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness.

In other words, what we think of as irresistible impulses are actually invitations being sent by our minds. This is an important insight, because once you recognize this, you can ask your mind why it’s inviting you to such crappy parties.

our lives are what we pay attention to.