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The widespread dependence on phones, which displaces communication, sleep, work, study, and so on, is a sad reality, the price we pay for the eradication of boredom and the unbearable ease of instant gratification offered by smartphones. Smartphones perfectly tap into the ancient workings of our brains; they've essentially hacked them—and that's precisely why it's so difficult to overcome their oppression. In this video, we'll discuss effective strategies for doing this, based on understanding which buttons in our heads smartphones press.

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00:00 – Thanks to easy access to pleasure, smartphones have displaced almost everything else in our lives
04:07 – Fighting the smartphone is fighting evolution
05:27 – Advertisement
08:07 – The solution is not to fight the brain, but to change the environment
09:14 – Physically restrict access to your smartphone
10:58 – Avoiding your phone around bedtime
12:41 – Tactics for situations that trigger phone checking
15:08 – Blocker apps
17:17 – Physical ways to reduce the frequency of checking your phone
20:16 – Disabling notifications
21:05 – Separating devices
22:33 – Avoiding your phone during communication
28:37 – Make your phone boring, but add useful things
31:17 – Add useful and interesting things to your life in general

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Research:
Avoiding your smartphone before bed – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Immersive Conversation Between Two Characters – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Research by Elizabeth Dunne – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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