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You were not born checking your phone two hundred times a day. You learned it. Or rather, you were taught.
This is a short book about how that teaching was done.
It is written as a dog-training manual. That is not a gag. For most of the book the narrator speaks plainly to the owner of an animal, about recall, about the leash, about rewards and cues and the distress a creature shows when it is parted from the thing it is bonded to. The advice is sound. Real trainers would recognize all of it. The only trouble is the animal. Somewhere in the middle, if the book is doing its job, you will start to suspect that the creature being described is not a dog, that it lives in your pocket, and that the one being trained to come when called is you.
The mechanisms are real. The unpredictable reward that keeps you pulling. The signal built to be pleasant and impossible to ignore. The cue that was moved inside you so the thing no longer even has to call. The buzz you feel against your leg when nothing is there. None of it is an accident, and none of it is a flaw in your character. It was designed, by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it works on nearly everyone, which is the first thing worth knowing, because the shame of it is part of how it holds.
This is not a digital detox. It will not give you a thirty-day plan or promise to fix you in three weeks. There is no cure here, and the book says so out loud. What it offers is smaller and, I think, more honest: a way to see the leash while it is still on you, and to feel, on a good day, the small gap between the moment you are called and the moment you answer. That gap is narrow. It has been made narrow on purpose. But it is not gone, and it turns out to be the whole of what freedom is.
If you have ever reached for the thing in silence, before you decided to, and wondered who exactly was deciding, this book is about that. I know it contains genuine insight and I hope you enjoy.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. You were not born checking your phone two hundred times a day. You learned it. Or rather, you were taught.This is a short book about how that teaching was done.It is written as a dog-training manual. That is not a gag. For most of the book the narrator speaks plainly to the owner of an animal, about recall, about the leash, about rewards and cues and the distress a creature shows when it is parted from the thing it is bonded to. The advice is sound. Real trainers would recognize all of it. The only trouble is the animal. Somewhere in the middle, if the book is doing its job, you will start to suspect that the creature being described is not a dog, that it lives in your pocket, and that the one being trained to come when called is you.The mechanisms are real. The unpredictable reward that keeps you pulling. The signal built to be pleasant and impossible to ignore. The cue that was moved inside you so the thing no longer even has to call. The buzz you feel against your leg when nothing is there. None of it is an accident, and none of it is a flaw in your character. It was designed, by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it works on nearly everyone, which is the first thing worth knowing, because the shame of it is part of how it holds.This is not a digital detox. It will not give you a thirty-day plan or promise to fix you in three weeks. There is no cure here, and the book says so out loud. What it offers is smaller and, I think, more honest: a way to see the leash while it is still on you, and to feel, on a good day, the small gap between the moment you are called and the moment you answer. That gap is narrow. It has been made narrow on purpose. But it is not gone, and it turns out to be the whole of what freedom is.If you have ever reached for the thing in silence, before you decided to, and wondered who exactly was deciding, this book is about that. I know it contains genuine insight and I hope you enjoy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798180472250
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. You were not born checking your phone two hundred times a day. You learned it. Or rather, you were taught.This is a short book about how that teaching was done.It is written as a dog-training manual. That is not a gag. For most of the book the narrator speaks plainly to the owner of an animal, about recall, about the leash, about rewards and cues and the distress a creature shows when it is parted from the thing it is bonded to. The advice is sound. Real trainers would recognize all of it. The only trouble is the animal. Somewhere in the middle, if the book is doing its job, you will start to suspect that the creature being described is not a dog, that it lives in your pocket, and that the one being trained to come when called is you.The mechanisms are real. The unpredictable reward that keeps you pulling. The signal built to be pleasant and impossible to ignore. The cue that was moved inside you so the thing no longer even has to call. The buzz you feel against your leg when nothing is there. None of it is an accident, and none of it is a flaw in your character. It was designed, by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it works on nearly everyone, which is the first thing worth knowing, because the shame of it is part of how it holds.This is not a digital detox. It will not give you a thirty-day plan or promise to fix you in three weeks. There is no cure here, and the book says so out loud. What it offers is smaller and, I think, more honest: a way to see the leash while it is still on you, and to feel, on a good day, the small gap between the moment you are called and the moment you answer. That gap is narrow. It has been made narrow on purpose. But it is not gone, and it turns out to be the whole of what freedom is.If you have ever reached for the thing in silence, before you decided to, and wondered who exactly was deciding, this book is about that. I know it contains genuine insight and I hope you enjoy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798180472250
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - You were not born checking your phone two hundred times a day. You learned it. Or rather, you were taught.This is a short book about how that teaching was done.It is written as a dog-training manual. That is not a gag. For most of the book the narrator speaks plainly to the owner of an animal, about recall, about the leash, about rewards and cues and the distress a creature shows when it is parted from the thing it is bonded to. The advice is sound. Real trainers would recognize all of it. The only trouble is the animal. Somewhere in the middle, if the book is doing its job, you will start to suspect that the creature being described is not a dog, that it lives in your pocket, and that the one being trained to come when called is you.The mechanisms are real. The unpredictable reward that keeps you pulling. The signal built to be pleasant and impossible to ignore. The cue that was moved inside you so the thing no longer even has to call. The buzz you feel against your leg when nothing is there. None of it is an accident, and none of it is a flaw in your character. It was designed, by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it works on nearly everyone, which is the first thing worth knowing, because the shame of it is part of how it holds.This is not a digital detox. It will not give you a thirty-day plan or promise to fix you in three weeks. There is no cure here, and the book says so out loud. What it offers is smaller and, I think, more honest: a way to see the leash while it is still on you, and to feel, on a good day, the small gap between the moment you are called and the moment you answer. That gap is narrow. It has been made narrow on purpose. But it is not gone, and it turns out to be the whole of what freedom is.If you have ever reached for the thing in silence, before you decided to, and wondered who exactly was deciding, this book is about that. I know it contains genuine insight and I hope you enjoy. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798180472250
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