{"id":12793,"date":"2024-01-02T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/you-have-one-life-what-do-you-want-to-spend-it-paying-attention-to-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:37:27","slug":"you-have-one-life-what-do-you-want-to-spend-it-paying-attention-to-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/you-have-one-life-what-do-you-want-to-spend-it-paying-attention-to-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"You have one life. What do you want to spend it paying attention to \u2013 your phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apps on our phones are designed to be addictive, but if we recognize what is happening, we can claw back our free time<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/dec\/14\/sign-up-to-reclaim-your-brain-our-free-email-to-help-you-scroll-less-and-live-more\">Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up with my phone. I was holding my baby in my arms as I scrolled through eBay, feeling a bit delusional with fatigue, when I had a brief out-of-body experience in which I saw the scene as if I were an outsider.<\/p>\n<p>There was my baby, gazing up at me. And there was me, looking down at my phone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Catherine Price is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and the <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/catherineprice.substack.com\/\">How to Feel Alive<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/catherineprice.substack.com\/\"> newsletter<\/a>, dedicated to helping people scroll less and live more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/02\/smartphones-attention-economy-reclaim-free-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b06ad21bc7d680710af1a1d2193223d1eb8c34ed\/337_280_5013_3009\/master\/5013.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8199bbcedab0b004bc25a3fc6914508a\" title=\"You have one life. What do you want to spend it paying attention to \u2013 your phone?\" \/>The apps on our phones are designed to be addictive, but if we recognize what is happening, we can claw back our free time<br \/>\n\u2022 Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<br \/>\nIt was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up with my phone. I was holding my baby in my arms as I scrolled through eBay, feeling a bit delusional with fatigue, when I had a brief out-of-body experience in which I saw the scene as if I were an outsider.<br \/>\nThere was my baby, gazing up at me. And there was me, looking down at my phone.<br \/>\nCatherine Price is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and the How to Feel Alive newsletter, dedicated to helping people scroll less and live more. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apps on our phones are designed to be addictive, but if we recognize what is happening, we can claw back our free time \u2022 Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone It was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/you-have-one-life-what-do-you-want-to-spend-it-paying-attention-to-your-phone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You have one life. What do you want to spend it paying attention to \u2013 your phone?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}