Digital Detox

By Victor de la Fuente

"""Digital Detox: Master Your Digital Life"" is a practical and insightful guidebook that aims to help individuals break free from the shackles of digital distractions, overcome anxiety, boost productivity, and achieve mental calmness in today's hyper-connected world. Authored by experts in psychology and technology, this book offers a comprehensive roadmap to regain control over one's digital life.

The book begins by examining the pervasive influence of digital technology and its impact on our attention span, mental health, and overall well-being. It delves into the reasons behind our increasing reliance on devices, such as smartphones and social media platforms, and the addictive nature of these digital tools. Recognizing the detrimental effects, the authors emphasize the importance of a digital detox—a deliberate and mindful disconnection from technology to restore balance and reclaim one's life.

Drawing on the latest research and practical strategies, ""Digital Detox"" provides readers with a step-by-step framework to implement a successful detox plan. The book addresses common challenges faced during the process, including fear of missing out (FOMO), social pressures, and the allure of instant gratification. It offers techniques for managing digital distractions, setting boundaries, and creating healthier digital habits that support productivity and well-being.

Throughout the book, readers are guided to explore various mindfulness practices, stress reduction techniques, and methods to cultivate mental calmness amidst the digital chaos. The authors emphasize the importance of creating sacred spaces, both physical and digital, that foster focus, creativity, and self-reflection. They provide tips on incorporating meditation, exercise, and meaningful offline activities into daily routines to enhance overall mental and emotional well-being.

""Digital Detox"" also delves into the profound impact of digital detox on relationships, including family dynamics, friendships, and romantic partnerships. It offers guidance on navigating digital communication, setting boundaries, and fostering meaningful connections in a technology-driven world.

By the end of the book, readers will have gained a deep understanding of the digital landscape and its effects on their lives. They will possess a toolkit of practical strategies, techniques, and exercises to implement a successful digital detox and achieve a healthier, more balanced relationship with technology. ""Digital Detox: Master Your Digital Life"" is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to break free from digital distractions, reduce anxiety, increase productivity, and find lasting mental calmness in the modern age."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Victor de la Fuente
• Release date: Jun 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798396816527

Victor de la Fuente

Victor de la Fuente is an eCommerce/eBusiness consultant. Also, collaborates with different business schools and provides lectures and teaching programs about eCommerce, Online Marketing and technology.As CEO of his own consultancy agency, provides solutions to different enterprises in the digital ecosystem.Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, become a Minimalist once he started an around the world trip. As an athlete, mostly mastering long-distance running, also explored all the continents.Al long range of deep-changing experiences, gave them the objective of achieve deep work, and explore not only the physical but also the philosophical and conceptual world.His work, as writer and consultant,

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Master your digital life: avoid distractions and anxiety, increase your productivity without stress and achieve mental calmness

Víctor de la Fuente

Copyright © 2023 Víctor de la Fuente

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Digital Detox / Víctor de la Fuente – 1st Edition

ISBN 9798396816527

Index

MY REDEMPTION

THE PROBLEM

START WITH THE WHY

A SHORT INSIGHT INTO ADDICTION

INCONVENIENCE AS AN ALLY

THE SOLUTIONS

APP BLOCKERS

THE WITCH HOUR

HOW MANY TIMES…

AD BLOCKERS

FROM AD BLOCKER TO OBFUSCATION

AIRPLANE MODE ON

SCREEN AT NIGHT, NIGHTMARE AT HEART

SOCIAL VOYEURISM

OUT OF MY SIGHT

EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE

LOST IN NOTIFICATIONS

DIGITAL MINIMALISM

LAST THOUGHTS

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

My redemption

I have always been fascinated by the contradiction in some modern preferences. As one of the most controversial modern philosophers, Slavoj Zizek, rightly pointed out, we want caffeine-free coffee, alcohol-free beer and a veggie burger. Beyond removing the 'harmful' element from these products, what is paradoxical is that we are removing the property and the central element that define these products. Basically, coffee is caffeine. What do we really want if we remove caffeine from coffee?

The subtraction of these elements is a defining part of who we are. The negative way is part of the identity of a product, and probably with some sadness, part of our identity. We can define something by the qualities that element or person has; but we can also define something through the characteristics it does not contain. In other simplistic terms, I can define myself as a vegetarian or as someone who does not eat meat. In other words, when I order a hamburger without bread, not only do I define myself as ordering a hamburger (I am not a vegetarian) but also as ordering it without bread (someone who due to intolerance, or due to his own decision in terms of values or lifestyle decides not to eat bread). In the hypothetical case that the restaurant does not have bread, it deprives part of my identity. So that it is not diminished, I should offer that burger without a bun in order to reaffirm that part of my identity in which I refuse to order food with certain flour products.

In this modern paradox, I present myself as an online marketing professional... with a desire to disconnect from the Internet. I present myself as an expert in advertising strategies and campaigns while explaining how not to fall into the traps of the industry. I am dedicated to helping you sell more online and convert users into buyers for all types of businesses, while advocating for a minimalist lifestyle.

Living with these personal paradoxes and inconsistencies is neither novel nor something relegated to my inner demons. I am just perhaps slightly more conscious - or harder or more honest with myself - when it comes to living with them. 

I consider myself to have a direct writing style, too much so. For consistency with my lifestyle, simple and minimalist. I prefer the content to be dense and not the form. I prefer not to show off with artificially long and stilted constructions for the sake of a better understanding. At the same time, I prefer not to repeat the concept more times than necessary in order to stretch it as much as possible for no other reason than to recreate it -and waste the reader's time-. And yet, obviously, the concepts, the examples and the message of the book could be further summarized. That is precisely the problem we are living: the reduction to the minimum expression as if there were no time to move on to the next one, and from there to the next one. Consuming philosophies like summer songs.

It is precisely the format, the book, which allows us to create a certain bond with the author, and in its extension to get to know him, although even more important, the format allows the reader to get to know himself. Reading a book is not the same as reading on a screen for the simple reason of the distractions that the medium allows. However, on any other digital screen there is a world of distractions in the form of notifications, messages, pop-ups and sounds. The difference between a text on a screen and a book lies not only in the medium itself. In turn, the text we encounter in a book is 'dumb'. The text in a book lacks even hyperlinks. Links that under the promise of diving in more detail on a topic, distract us even without us clicking in a subconscious way with that different underlining and color; calling us to divert our attention to a subtopic without realizing that we will not retain neither the main topic nor the detailed one.

There are several studies on how hyperlinks in a text affect reading ability. In summary, those readers who navigate alternately between links have the sensation of knowing more but retain less, both in quantity and depth. Worst of all, they do not enjoy reading as much as their counterparts who have read a text without interruptions. Curious conclusion of these studies that stand in the way of the seductive logic that the more links, the more possibilities of knowing and going deeper into a subject.

That is why books allow the creation of a link with the