Phone lives
in the kitchen.

The part that matters.

There's a reason you can't put it down.

Your phone isn't sitting in the kitchen waiting for you. It's in your pocket, on the couch, beside the bed, in your hand. The reason you reach for it 144 times a day isn't willpower. It's proximity.

Two pieces of research worth knowing:

Mark, Gloria (UC Irvine, 2015): It takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to fully refocus after a single interruption. Every notification, every glance, costs you nearly half an hour of attention you don't get back.

Ward, Duke, Gneezy & Bos (2017): The mere presence of a phone in the room, even face-down and silent, measurably reduces cognitive capacity. Your brain knows it's there. Part of you is always listening for it.

This is not a moral failing. The phone is engineered to win this fight. The only intervention that works long-term is the boring one: distance.

So we're not asking you to delete apps or do a digital detox. We're asking you to move one charger. For seven days.

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