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Whether you’re exhausted by technology, unable to control your screen time, or simply looking for something real, Take This Book Outside is your chance to step back and give yourself the gift of presence.
After decades of living an increasingly digital life, Martin May decided to seek peace and contentment away from screens. He has since implemented multiple practices to change his relationship with technology.
Through 52 reflections in the book you’ll read personal, relatable stories and receive gentle nudges encouraging you to rethink your screen habits.
The goal isn’t to throw away all your devices and go live in the woods. And you don’t need to buy an expensive “dumbphone,” live off-the-grid, or otherwise upend your life.
Instead, you’ll learn how to regain balance to stop your digital life from encroaching on your actual real life and real-world experiences.
Among other things, you’ll contemplate:
– how excessively consuming experiences of others makes your own life poorer,
– how you’ll have to choose whether you want to document or live your life,
– how people around you can make you even more glued to screens,
– how non-existing relationships destroy your real human ties,
– how technology creates a fear of missing out and what you can do to handle it.
Take this book outside and give yourself a quiet moment of contemplation away from technology.
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No AI was involved in producing this book.
A human wrote this book, a human edited this book, a human designed the cover, a human designed the print version of this book, and a human narrated the audiobook, too.
About the author
After building a successful tiny business and deciding he’d had enough, Martin went on to explore the world, engage in athletic pursuits, and go after various personal goals.
Through his experiences stretching from hiking in Tasmania, freediving in southern Greece, surfing in Western Australia, and off-road adventures in Mongolia, he realized that what he had been always looking for was peace of mind and a deep connection with nature.
His books aim to transmit that sense of warm peacefulness. He wants to encourage readers to rethink their digital lives and build more memories in the real world.
