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#276 BITESIZE | Transform Your Life with a Digital Detox | Adam Alter

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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How Many Minutes of the Day Do I Spend Without My Phone?

The proximity to the phone often will termine how often you use it. It's this old psychological concept known as propinquity, and which basically says that the things that are closest to you in physical space will have an outsized effect on your psychological experience of the world. So one way to gauge whether you're succeeding in your fight against using tekmore than you'd like is to say, how many minutes of the day do i spend where i can't reach my phone without moving my feet? And if the answer is zero, that's a problem.

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