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Listened to this on audio. I didn‘t actually move through the challenges yet, but it did make me more aware of some things I do and don‘t do with my phone. I recently took my work email off my phone for a vacation and it was so liberating. Since I returned I‘ve kept it off. I loved the subject of this book and I think it‘s nice to have a reminder it‘s perfectly fine to be bored sometimes

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A short-ish read/listen about how to live more productively with our devices. There are a couple of takeaways that I will try to put into practise.
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"You think that you are disconnected. But the question is, what are you disconnected from? You're actually constantly disconnected from yourself by having all of these things."

This book explores the idea that being bored can lead your mind to more creative thinking, and when we spend too much time with technology we are limiting that capacity. It is not anti-tech, but rather gives advise on small ways to limit tech use when it is not necessary.

Such a good read if you‘re trying to disconnect from your tech more.

Book 6 of #15books15weeks

Moving this back to my #TBR...I really want to dive into this, but need something right now that requires less from me. #selfcare #shelfcare

Next up...getting started on my April #triplespin. This may come with me into May, but I‘m delighted to have gotten to book number 3! I‘m sitting out May‘s extravaganza in hopes of reading a book that‘s “on loan” from a colleague. Maybe I can actually return it to her *when* we go back to work! But when will that be?!?!

It‘s hard for me to admit when I‘m feeling depressed but last week was super low💩So grateful for my partner, my son, and the #Litsylove community ♥️it‘s okay to not be okay 🤷‍♀️tough times— be good to yourselves

Catching up on correspondence #litsylove we have been going mad trying to migrate everything online but I finally feel ready for quarantine 😷

I've been working so many long hours that I didnt know spring had come, so I decided to finish my audiobook while taking the long way back to my desk from a meeting in a different building. It was a nice treat. #20in20 #audiowalk

Do you suck at finishing NetGalley ARCs? I decided to catch up on my embarrassingly past due ARCs this month and make it a #NetGalleyNovember feel free to join me. Also 4 out of 5 of these work for #NFNov so if you read a lot of NonFiction check out the tag! #GratefulReads #LookingForwardToReading #tbr @rsteve388 @Clwojick @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Awesome. I have implemented some of the strategies and I don‘t feel so tied to my phone. I have also become super aware of where everyone else‘s phone is during shared time like dinner.

Oops. Guess my book should be called “Bored and Forgetful.” 😂 Have you ever accidentally bought a book you already owned? (I have, an embarrassing number of times.)📚

A really interesting book about minds and creativity and being “busy” vs being “bored”. She has done a lot of research into the ideas presented in here so don‘t just dismiss it as anti-tech or whatever. Some of it didn‘t really apply to me (not a parent and the interview with the game designer was a bit of a snooze) but I found a lot of think about regarding the time I just pick up my phone for no reason.

#riotgrams Day 14 - audiobooks or book podcasts! I opened Libby and realized that I didn‘t have any audiobooks checked out! Rectified that 😜 @bookriot

1. Road trip to Nebraska
2. It was a ghost town at work with people getting an early jump on the holiday
3. Seattle
4. Gorilla I guess
5. 91 & road construction
#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

Kindles were $99 this past weekend, so I snapped one up! 😍

I was expecting a book on boredom and creativity, but the focus is more on being mindful about or use of technology. The author gives scientific studies (some practically contradictory) and interviews experts, then ends each chapter with a challenge: note your phone usage, delete one app, go one day without using the camera, etc. It was okay for what it was, but I'm already pretty mindful about my phone use and didn't find it particularly useful.

This was a fun and ultimately interesting read but none of the information felt new. I also didn‘t love the formatting on the ebook, why were the tiny type sections separate from the rest of the text? Anyway, I did come out of it with some concrete ideas to try to use my phone more mindfully, so if that‘s what you‘re looking for too this may be helpful.

I‘m not ashamed to admit I‘m a little addicted to my phone (okay, maybe I should be more ashamed lol). But I‘m trying to get way better about that so I‘m hoping this book can provide some good ideas/motivation about breaking that cycle for me.

Started this new audiobook today on my drive back up to NorCal. Heard mixed reviews... anyone read/listen to this? How did you like it?

There‘s was some interesting and surprising information in here but I‘m not sure that I‘ll go through the suggested steps 100%.

Procrastinating with Buzzfeed. https://www.buzzfeed.com/rinri/if-you-were-a-book-what-genre-would-you-be-3c8kx?...

Anyone else out there bored out of their gourds at work? I shouldn't complain...my job is pretty cushy....but it is not my passion and it does not make me excited to get out of bed in the morning.

I‘m about halfway through Bored and Brilliant and I have already downloaded the Moment app and am rethinking all the notifications and other apps I have on my phone. I also want to stop reading on my phone because of all the distractions 🤔
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This was a great look at creativity and the distractions we use to hamper that creativity. The book focuses mostly on screen distractions- apps, selfies, games, etc. I have been trying some of the activities in he book and some are difficult, but freeing in it does show addiction. I removed the FB and Twitter app from all my devices, for example, and even though a browser can be used, I got to those sites less often. Good read.

Between the snowstorms last week and The Cold From Hell this weekend, I should be freaking DaVinci by now.

Did anyone else do this challenge with the podcast?

December stats!

#listening #audiobook #selfimprovement #creativity

I heard about this book on two different podcasts and decided to check it out! I'm hoping it will have some tips that will get me out of my writing slump.

"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.” --Epictetus

Steve Jobs, the man who created the iPhone and iPad, restricted his children‘s use of them. This makes me think there‘s something he knew about his products that he never shared. Like a drug dealer who doesn‘t touch the stuff that he deals.

Today is the first weekend day in forever that I haven‘t had to grade papers, and I don‘t know what to do with myself. Oh, no, wait. I do. 😍

You can‘t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

Dozens of people wrote me to say that they can no longer get through a novel or even a magazine article. One listener, Katherine, complained that she can‘t “sit and read for more than fifteen minutes at a time without feeling the urge to jump up and look at my phone.” This very same issue plagued the Washington Postwriter Mike Rosenwald, a man who gets paid to read, think, and write.

A more official study done by the City University of New York‘s Lehman College in 2015 found that nearly half the pedestrians at five busy Manhattan intersections were so distracted by their electronic devices that they ignored red lights when crossing the street. “Wexting” (walking while texting) can be dangerous, but when even the Big Apple (or the threat of being run over) can‘t compete for our attention, you know this must be love.

Try to limit the amount of daydreaming you do when you‘re operating heavy machinery.

--Seems like good advice.

Manoush Zomorodi is the keynote speaker at the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference today. She's a great speaker and her book sounds really interesting - about learning to be bored again and give ourselves space to go into "default mode," which lets us think creatively #MLA17AC

Don't know how many Moment users are on here, but I think it's cool they recently made a new 7 day course based on this new book. I just recently got this one from #netgalley and will be reading along as I do the course. I will blog my experience when I'm done. I did a review on their 14 day boot camp course earlier this year if anyone is interested.
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Just got this one in today! Can't wait to start reading!

Morning reading at the most idyllic, cozy retreat upstate.

I loved this book! I need to get it in print for myself so I can go through all the exercises and do them thoroughly. I've noticed that it's harder to focus lately and I think the strategies in Bored and Brilliant will help me get that back. Also, as a listener of Note To Self, I could hear Manoush in my head reading the book to me - and that's a good thing.