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How To Stop Checking

Your Phone So Often

It’s a modern-day problem, but many of us can’t leave the room—let
alone the house—without our phones in our pockets. We even have
new gadgets to wear on our wrists to help us keep our phones in our
pockets more—but without missing out on anything.

Having a computer in your pocket is amazing. There’s no denying that
we’re incredibly lucky to be able to afford these powerful machines
and to take advantage of how quickly technology is advancing.

But I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants to spend a little less time
with my phone and a little more time with people, nature, food, and
anything else not involving screens.

Keep your phone out of reach

If your phone is always nearby, it’s easy to pick it up more often than
you’d like to. Making it harder to give in to that temptation will help
you break the habit of picking up your phone anytime you can.

Adam Alter, professor of marketing at NYU and author of Irresistible: The
Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, says
to think about designing your environment to help you avoid your phone:

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So if there’s something that you keep doing
obsessively, make sure that it’s not in your
environment and you’re less likely to do it. That’s
a much more effective way of preventing yourself
from using it than say keeping it nearby but trying
to just suppress the desire to use it.

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