| > removing the phone from the room entirely. 100%. Started this recently. It works perfectly if you can withstand the withdrawals! The moment you start doing this, is the moment you have to confront how incredibly addicted you actually are to your phone and the internet. It will feel like you are being tortured. And it's very easy to give in because the immediate consequences are quite tame (getting to sleep a bit later, little less energy the next day). But over time they add up. I highly recommend trying it and observing your mind go crazy. You can truly start to understand addicts and what they go through. The biggest revelation was that cold turkey doesn't work too well. Instantly cutting off access to your phone can cause you to be consumed by the desire to have access to it (moreso than you even felt before), and you lose a lot of mental energy fighting against this. Which can disrupt your work, and disrupt your sleep even more so than if you allowed yourself access to it. I think this is the reason most people don't do it even though its such a simple and obvious advice. Addiction. |