How to change your life, if you delete smartphone almost all applications

Smartphones not only make our lives easier, but also kill productivity. During a chat with friends or work gadget takes away some of our attention. We read the notice, check the mail, write to. This impairs concentration, prevents the solution of complex problems and destroys relationships.

One American designer and writer Jake Knapp noticed a devastating impact on their lives smartphone. Then he simply deleted from your iPhone any distracting applications, he has lived since six years and continues his experiments to this day. And it can go the way everyone.

In 2012, I realized that I have a problem. My iPhone makes me nervous. He called me out of the pocket as the One Ring was calling Bilbo Baggins.

Jake Knapp

Jake Knapp deleted all the applications on your smartphone

In Russia, Jake Knapp is best known as the co-author of the book "Sprint. How to develop and test a new product in just five days». Its history began quite banal - in 2007 came out beautiful and brilliant first iPhone, and it wanted to Knapp. In this case, the smartphone was mail, browser, and even the application for investment, so that it could justify the purchase of the utility to work.

Gradually Knapp installed on the iPhone new applications: Facebook, Instagram, news, games - a standard set of any smartphone owner.

More mailboxes to check and more channels to read. Each application clung to my brain, tying the phone to my skull invisible thread.

Jake Knapp

One evening, Knapp played with the children, and the eldest son asked, "Dad, why do you look at your phone?" Then Jake realized he did not know why and does not even remember how the phone turned out to be in his hands. He wanted to spend the whole day with the children, but when the moment came, he focused attention not on them but on your phone.

When Knapp dug in himself, he realized that the iPhone needed him not as a tool. He wanted to smartphone has improved his life, wanted to control the future of this gadget, they have not for good, but just for the sake of owning. Then, Jake got angry and decided that more iPhone will not steal his attention.

I deleted the Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Deleted YouTube and all the games. Then he opened the settings and remove Safari.

Jake Knapp

Knapp left the e-mail, because it is very fond of her: he sent the first email in the 1990s and even worked on the design Gmail. But in fact it is the post was his principal distraction. She stole time and attention under the guise of importance "to work." As a result, Knapp deleted and Gmail.

Just 60 seconds - and he found himself alone and isolated. Jake began to feel anxious, so convinced himself that it was just an experiment. He tries to live a week without the application, and then return it back.

The first few days were strange. Knapp unlock the phone, but then I remembered that there is nothing to check. It's a strange feeling brought peace. Head was free, and time seemed to slow down to Knapp could longer keep pace.

As a result, Jake liked it so much is the state of freedom of the experiment for up to a week long. And now he was 6 years old lives with neotvlekayuschim smartphone. During this time he wrote several articles about her experience and caused a great resonance in the Internet. Someone calls it "a smug idiot without self-control", but many followed suit and removed at least a couple of applications.

In this case, the iPhone itself was for Jake useful device. Knapp listens with it music and podcasts, translates into google Translate, Talking to of Siri, uses maps and photographs. He simply removed from the smartphone that it distracted.

If I gave this device when I was a kid in the 1980s, I would go mad with delight. iPhone without distractions - a futuristic tool which I run. This is what I really wanted all along.

Jake Knapp

Of course, there were no casualties. Knapp lost his reputation, which instantly responds to the letter or the task immediately after receipt. He became less likely to use Facebook and lost touch with some friends. But instead he began to devote more time and attention to his wife and children, and this was the most important for Jake.

Two months ago, I removed myself from all smartphone app notification, except for the workers chat and e-mail - to me rarely and only write the most important thing. Of course, two months - this is not six years old, but already in the first week I felt a serious improvement. Now the smart phone does not distract me in the course of work, and in my spare time I read or talk with family instead hang in social networks. And install applications back I do not even want to.

What results have helped to achieve neotvlekayuschy smartphone

It would seem that deleting important for applications hinder efficiency. Knapp was ready for it, because it makes the iPhone neotvlekayuschim to spend more time with his family.

But it turned out that without the distraction of other people's tasks and posts it has become much easier to find time for the really important projects. As a result, Knapp completed a bunch of tasks that are set aside "for later", written and published two books.

The merit is neotvlekayuschego smartphone in this huge. Psychology research of the German Institute at Humboldt University showThe Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed ​​and StressThat a person needs a minimum of 23 minutes to focus on the task after the break. And if on a smartphone, a plurality of applications, you will likely not focus ever since the notification will come even more often than once every 23 minutes.

The two-hour experiment by Knapp

It is unlikely that you will be able to decide immediately remove all applications from your smartphone permanently. Therefore Knapp recommends not to even try one week and two hours of the experiment, which consists of several steps.

1. Decide what you need to pay attention. Knapp wanted to communicate more with my family. And what do you want? Ckontsentrirovatsya at work to do their studies and self-development? Fix your priorities.
2. Tell others about it. Warn your friends and colleagues that you are not available in messengers constantly. If you need something urgently, even to call.
3. Remove the application of social networks. The accounts can always go with your computer or tablet, so you will not lose them.
4. Remove news apps. You can learn news and from the computer, and sometimes it does not need.
5. Remove all games and applications for viewing videos (YouTube, Netflix, and so on. N.)
6. Remove Web browsers. Sometimes it is necessary to dig into the settings.
7. Delete the email and all messengers, including the dates for work.
8. Leave the phone so for two hours and see what happens.

If it sounds too scary for you, try removing at least a couple of applications, for example, the number of games or social networks. And remember that this is not a monastic vow: you can always install it all over again. Experience shows Knapp, are thought to soothe and make the rejection of applications much easier.

Read more about the experiment, Jake and his ideas on save time and attention can be in the book "Find the time".

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If you decide on a two-hour experiment, the result of its share in the comments. Or just tell us how to use a smartphone, and how to limit its impact on your life.