Why are more and more people these days finding it hard to concentrate? Why does it feel hard to get into a task, accomplish “deep work”, or sometimes even form a coherent thought? I find it ironic that we live in a day that more and more juice is concentrated than the people who drink it. The culprit of our fragmented minds? Phone over-use. The average American picks up their phone 144 times a day, and uses it for an average of 4 and a half hours a day (1). I don’t know a single person who sits down and uses their phone for 4 straight hours, so where does that time come from? Moments throughout the whole day. I would argue that it would be better for someone to sit down and use their phone once a day for four hours straight than to have a habit that “shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life” (2). If the average person picks up their phone 144 times a day, and sleeps for 8 hours, then there’s 16 hours for those 144 time...
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