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I spent a while on this path - removing apps, hiding others, setting personal time limits or other restrictions on my phone usage. At each step on the way, all
by ppf 5y ago
I spent a while on this path - removing apps, hiding others, setting personal time limits or other restrictions on my phone usage. At each step on the way, all I learned is that I need to go further. Short of getting rid of your smartphone (which I have now done), the most effective thing I found was to make sure you put your phone in some fixed place in the house where you won't typically look at it (a shelf in the kitchen, in my case), ideally with it turned off. Even then, I would find after a few days that my phone was back in my hand and I had been wasting a lot of time on it.
There are no easy answers, sorry. You'll always find a way around any lockdown you do.
- all2 5y agoI have an acquaintance that has a time-locked box he puts his phone in. I thought it was a novel solution to the problem.
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoA similar alternative would be to place it somewhere where a notable effort would be required to fetch it, like traveling half an hour to a weekend house. All these things could give just the right amount of challenge and time so that the urge to scroll could transition into rational thinking.
- all2 5y agoI find temptation passes within five-ish minutes, and if I can circumvent that temptation for the minimum period of time I'm clear of acting on the temptation. "Barrier to access" has been a successful means of avoidance for me.