What's up everybody? My name is Ryan and on entirely honest I hope to improve your life by sharing the ways that I improve mine and in this video I'm gonna be getting a little bit personal with you guys and be sharing an addiction that I've been trying to overcome recently and I've gotten a lot of help from this amazing book So I want to make a short video on the channel just to share this book with you guys and just talk a little bit about my Experience with this book and digital addiction in general. So without further ado, let's get started So the book is called smartphone dumb phone and it's co-authored by a guy named John Dicey So this guy actually works for Alan Carr's easy way company and since Alan passed away back in like the early or mid-2000s The people that were running his company kind of took his methods and applied them to the modern era and Digital devices and I think they did a really good job at doing so and I found this book to just to be like super helpful and insightful If you can tell I'm not quite done reading it yet I still have a little bit to go but I'm definitely starting the the process and applying the the things that I learned in this book to my own life And I've already been doing it and it's like really great And so I just wanted to make this quick video just to share this this book with you all of you guys because I know like Phone addiction or digital addiction or like online gaming or gambling like these are all like really common problems in our society today And a lot of things that people really do struggle with and I think it's just amazing how you could spend like $20 on a book Or not even buy the book like I got this from the library So like you just read a book and it could really change your life for the better So yeah, even though I ordered this from the library because I wasn't quite sure about it I'm definitely gonna buy my own copy to have it on my bookshelf because I think just books like this Or just really useful to have especially ones that really help you a lot because you can just go back and refer to them and see like how they've helped you or Or if you're struggling with that addiction or like maybe you're getting like some sort of temptation to go back to your old ways You can reread parts of this book to kind of bring you back to like a better headspace So yeah, it's a really great book. It's by Alan Carr and I've also made a video about Alan Carr's easy way to stop smoking And this is kind of my first exposure to Alan Carr. It's also his most what he's like most well known for but But yeah, this book's just for like digital addiction and it's also like just super great and it's really interesting with digital addiction because It's kind of unlike other addictions like smoking in which you can't really just completely abstain from using digital devices Especially if you live in like the modern modern day era Like we all do So that's why I've like for me personally I found it to be a really like hard addiction to overcome because like all my other addictions I could just kind of completely eliminate it, but with this addiction. I really need to kind of have Have it be a part of my life in some way and so yeah I've kind of gained like this book is giving me a lot of clarity about like how I want to use my digital devices Mainly my computer. So for me it was like watching like YouTube videos or just like surfing online And I really want my computer to be like a place where I create content to help other people And so that's kind of like what I want my digital devices to be is like devices that support my creation of Content for you guys and documenting like my self-improvement journey to hopefully inspire and motivate you guys to improve your lives as well So yeah, that's that's about it. I just want to do a short video About this book just letting you guys know about it It's not really like a book review or anything, but I do think it's like absolutely amazing resource If you're someone like myself and you're into like self-improvement and self-help and Yeah, you don't think you have like the best relationship with your phone or with your with your digital devices or maybe you like Spend hours a day procrastinating and watching YouTube like I did but yeah, that's it for this week Just a short video on this book. I really hope it helps you guys definitely check it out I'll leave a link in the description to the book in case you wanted to buy it It's not an affiliate link Amazon said like nobody buys your books with your links So we're not gonna give you you're not gonna be part of the Amazon associate program So it's just a regular link. I don't get anything for it, but I hope you guys do check out the book If if you are someone that uses your phone a lot or if you have some sort of online or digital addiction I really hope this this video helps you guys out So that's about it for this week. Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed it If you guys are in a self-improvement, please check out some of the other videos on my channel I make quite a lot of them a new one every single week and yeah, that's about it So thanks again so much for watching and have a great day peace