In an age consumed by technology and being “on” 24/7, these enlightening reads show us how we can—and should—break away. It’s time for a system reset!
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke, MD
We are all living in a sea of compulsive overconsumption. All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. Our world is addicted to fleeting distracting pleasures that at best get us nowhere. In her extraordinarily powerful book, Dr. Anna Lembke, Medical Director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, diagnoses the problem and provides a clear way back to a balanced life.
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
“Lembke has written a book that radically changes the way we think about mental illness, pleasure, pain, reward, and stress. Turn toward it. You’ll be happy you did.”—Daniel Levitin, New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and Successful Aging
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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.
“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington
“This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant
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How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone.
“The Marie Kondo of brains . . . for the first time in a long time, I’m starting to feel like a human again.”—The New York Times
“A slim, insight-packed volume that’s both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn’t feel more timely, or more urgent.”—Health
“Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a healthier relationship with technology—without the fear mongering.”—Refinery29
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Check Out Catherine Price’s Latest Book: The Power of Fun.
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It’s the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.
“Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don’t, bring value to your life.”—Vox
“I challenge you not to devour this wonderful book in one sitting. I certainly did, and I started applying Cal’s ideas to my own life immediately.”—Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism
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Check Out Cal Newport’s Latest Book: A World Without Email.
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
“Turkle’s witty, well-written book offers much to ponder . . . This is the season of polls and sound bites, of Facebook updates extolling the perceived virtues or revealing the assumed villainy of opinions. Talk is cheap, but conversation is priceless.”—The Boston Globe
“This is a persuasive and intimate book, one that explores the minutiae of human relationships. Turkle uses our experiences to shame us, showing how, phones in hand, we turn away from our children, friends and co-workers, even from ourselves.”—The Washington Post
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future’s arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this “now” is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
“This is a wondrously thought-provoking book. Unlike other social theorists who either mindlessly decry or celebrate the digital age, Rushkoff explores how it has caused a focus on the immediate moment that can be both disorienting and energizing.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
“A wide-ranging social and cultural critique, Present Shock artfully weaves through many different materials as it makes its point: we are exhilarated, drugged, and consumed by the now. But we need to attend to the future before us and embrace the present in a more constructive way.”—Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation
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Reset Together:
Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Hot Cocoa Calm by Kira Willey; Read by the Author
Part of the Mindfulness Moments for Kids series, this mindful breathing moment teaches kids to find peace and calm.
With Hot Cocoa Calm, kids learn to how to take control of their emotions and breathe their way to calm. The perfect soothing read for bedtime before the winter holidays, this board book celebrates the peacefulness of the season. Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child’s desk at school.
Mindfulness Moments for Kids offer easy-to-follow exercises that kids can use to manage their bodies, breathing, and emotions.
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