
How to Break Your Phone Addiction
Offline with Jon Favreau
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The Importance of Self-Soothe
John: We're all going to have those moments where we're exhausted and we do want to passively consume something or which just feels overwhelming like you can't get off the couch. So if you had the phone in that case you would be using it to self-soothe and because you're tired and basically to kill time. Maybe you feel better if you zone out listening to a podcast than you do if you're scrolling through Twitter, he says. He also suggests developing a list of friends who don't think it's incredibly weird if I just call them out of the blue. You could just try and again you're using your phone in that moment but it's for a purpose.
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