Change Your Smartphone Behaviour To Improve Your Productivity

Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX

*Part II: Improving Productivity*

*Chapter 11*
Smartphones Harm Your Productivity More Than You Think

“It’s like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and
ye’d just as well to do it all wrong.”
– Cormac McCarthy

🛑 I am even more shocked to know that the author was shocked when he read a weird statistic a while back. An experiment,
which was conducted by the universities of Würzburg and Nottingham
Trent, revealed that 37.4% of the participants rated their phone as more or
equally important in relation to their close friends.

🛑 In this dispensation, it doesn’t seem like an unusual thing as almost everything has gone virtual. Internet usage has even increased by presumably 80% as NFT and crypto currency seem to be the new way.

I do believe that our smartphone has caused even more behavioural change than any psychological phenomena I’ve encountered.

This is not to water down the usefulness of the phone but to let you know you can control how your smartphone change you.

🛑 Change these smartphone behaviour:

1. Turn off ALL my notifications except messages and
calls
2. Remove yourself from all Whatsapp groups except for one
with importance and close friends

3. Remove all news apps (if something important happens,
you’ll hear it from the people around you)

4. Consume less things like; music, paid journalism, articles from specific
authors you follow, podcasts, YouTube videos (mostly to learn, but
also for entertainment because I’m not a robot), books, and
audiobooks on it

5.For the rest, you can use your phone to call, text, and to take notes,
photos and videos.

🛑 Respond to only important notification with urgency. Doing this does not mean you don’t value others but it means you don’t want to be a slave to your phone.

🛑 How you want to spend your time is your business. How you wa ti to be productive is your business. You may want to improve your effectiveness by a little percent yet you must know how to sacrifice some trivia things.
However, the difference between all users of time is how you spend those 24 hours (1440 minutes) each day.
To be
honest, just like the author I still have much to improve about my effectiveness. No one
reaches peak productivity. Nor is it important to be the most productive
person in the world.

🛑 I don’t dispute the fact that smartphone can increase productivity when used moderately.

To conclude on this note:
It’s time to reclaim your attention.
And thereby, reclaim your life. It’s worth it.

If you think your smartphone does affect you in a negative way, I would like to hear about it.