LinkedIn: In a recent study reported in TIME magazine, people check their phone on average 110 times a day. Some people checked it as much as 900 times a day; that’s once every minute of every waking hour of the day. Given those extremes, I don’t believe it makes me a Luddite to suggest it may be more productive – and certainly more Essentialist - to reach for a pocket notebook or journal before your phone.
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I've never thought of doing this before, and it is definitely an interesting method to use. For Olivier's Nose, journaling was a great way to express my thoughts in a safe place. It was also a great way for me to check in with myself and a physical reminder of the things I had learned. I unfortunately haven't kept up with my journal since taking this class, and this article makes me realize that I really should. I think journaling can not only have the potential to make someone more productive, but it can also have the potential to make them a much more pleasant person to communicate with. Also, it is so sad that there are people out there who check their phones 900 times a day. It would be interesting to do a study on those people and determine which apps they are going to every time they check their phone. I also wonder whether or not people who check their phones 900 times a day are children, teens, or adult workaholics.
I think that I do this....I'm not quite sure. There are many times that I'll "draft" out what I'm going to write in a text in either a note book or the notes app on my phone. I feel that when I do this I'm really thinking about how I am composing my message. However, I think that working and texting is really productive. This because it allows you to be getting work done while also being social.
I found this article actually quite ridiculous. The solution for not compulsively checking your phone is not writing in a journal. Really it's just getting some self control and not letting the device in your pocket dictate the pace of your life. Journaling and cell phones have very little direct relationship. I do believe journaling is a good idea in its own right, however prescribing it as a method for curbing cell phone use is just silly.
To be honest, the four reasons given for why writing in a journal is better than checking your phone sound like the arguments of someone who has not yet come to terms with the fact that technology is a thing. First, just because phones have evolved to allow you access to the internet and a bevy of other useful things, doesn't make them evil. A phone is just a tool for you to use however you like. I don't condone constant, never-ending phone use, either, but in the end cell phones aren't alive; they are actually physically incapable of forcing you to do anything you don't want to. All you have to do is exert a little bit of self control, as Dan said, and you'll be well on your way to kicking that reflexive phone-checking habit.
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