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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Let’s face it — your relationship with your phone is toxic. Luckily, Catherine Price is here to help. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter, and you’ll get daily, bite‑sized insights from the best new nonfiction books — in audio or text — straight from the authors. Sign up today!

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0:00.0	Happy Monday. I'm Michael Kovnet, host of the Next Big Idea Spinoff, The Next Big Idea Daily.
0:06.2	Every weekday, I invite leading nonfiction authors to share the big ideas from their books
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0:54.4	companion newsletter using the link in the episode notes. So today, let's talk about the most
1:00.2	important relationship in your life. Now, I'm not talking about any of your family members or
1:05.6	your significant other. I'm talking about your smartphone. You probably spend more time with your phone than you do with any of your human companions.
1:14.3	And who can blame you?
1:15.9	Endless entertainment, instant connection, the thrill of a new notification.
1:20.9	But I think it's time to admit that the relationship has gotten toxic.
1:25.6	Your phone interrupts your conversations.
1:27.3	It keeps you up at night and demands your attention every waking moment. has gotten toxic. Your phone interrupts your conversations.
1:31.7	It keeps you up at night and demands your attention every waking moment.
1:33.1	And what do you get in return?
1:40.3	A vague sense of anxiety, wasted hours, and a growing distance from real people and real life.
1:41.7	Real talk?
1:43.9	I think it might be time for a breakup. Journalists and author Catherine Price,
1:46.4	who writes the Substact newsletter, How to Feel Alive, has studied the science behind our digital
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