What’s your phone for?

The smartphone is a stark example of how when we are not clear about "what’s it for?", we are no longer in control.

Even though we think that we need the smartphone to talk to friends or listen to music or click photographs, etc, mostly, it has evolved into a consumption device stealing our attention from the work that matters and the life we want. It has made us addicted more or less to the dopamine hits.

If we can learn to keep our phone shut down as default, we can choose when to access it and for what. And we might realise that we need it much less than we think we do.

Of course, it's not as easy to do, but it's not as difficult either.