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Rhoda Martin's avatar

THIS is what it means to "become more human".

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Terra Brooke's avatar

I loved this. I am not ready…but I am doing my own thing. My Daylight Computer finally arrived. I almost cancelled after all the challenges I went through to get it. But I did and I’m glad. When they come up with their own keyboards, I hope to write on it. Low EMF and I think no blue light or minimal…And I will tuck this story in my pocket for now and maybe, just maybe…when I finally buy a place to live and am not traveling full time…maybe I will get a terrible phone too? Thanks for another great post. I really enjoy the way you write and what you write about.

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Jeff Goins's avatar

Ooh, interesting! I haven't heard of that. Let me know what you think of it. And here's hoping re: your own terrible phone. ;)

Truth is, if I could entirely do without the phone, I would. Most days, I don't even turn it on.

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Terra Brooke's avatar

That is awesome. Kind of cool for your kids to experience that as well (by seeing how it is to have a dad who isn't on his phone with them...)

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Sarah Allen's avatar

Amazing. In just a small semblance of this, the difference between when I have social media downloaded onto my phone and when I don't is night and day.

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Jess Browning's avatar

LOVE. I’m headed in this direction. Thanks for walking ahead and sharing it.

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Virginia Neely's avatar

I've never used my phone for anything except phoning. Data plans are too expensive here, and I'd never use a phone for something I could do more easily on my computer. But I see it all around me, people who can't refrain from checking their "phones" every 30 seconds.

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Kevin Kaiser's avatar

I’m considering joining your cult. Also, I loved listening to you reading this.

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Jeff Goins's avatar

Aw, thanks, man. That was Chantel's idea.

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Toby Neal's avatar

I crave this but am not ready

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Scarlet Darkwood's avatar

It’s sad when you almost can’t live without these phones. The whole world is built on them. Not sure that’s the best thing.

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Mark Caley's avatar

My solution was to make my smartphone a little dumber. I deleted the news feed app and the Facebook app. Getting rid of those two apps gave me back significant parts of my day and greatly reduced my stress levels.

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Jeff Goins's avatar

That's great, Mark. Good for you.

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Laura's avatar

This story resonates with me so much! I actually used to choose vacation spots specifically because they DIDNT have cell service. :-) Now I'm retired, so I'm invisible and irrelevant - and I'm ok with that. My boyfriend, though also retired, keeps reaching for his phone as if he may be called to respond to a crisis, spending hours on it scrolling. Cold turkey will be tough for some cell users to swallow.

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ARHuelsenbeck's avatar

I have a love/hate relationship with my iPhone 7, which my daughter gave me when she upgraded to an 11. (She now has whatever is the newest one.)

About four months ago I went to the T-Mobile store to get it working when it was all kerflooey. They turned it off and turned it back on again. Problem solved.

It's so old it can no longer be upgraded, so it is no longer compatible with my supermarket's app. I considered getting a newer model four months ago, but didn't jump on the deal they offered me. Now with the tariffs, I bet I can't get one for $700 any more. Which means I'll be waiting, maybe a decade (if I'm still alive).

I'd love to get rid of it, but the GPS has been really helpful at times. . .

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