How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World: A Workbook for Living Soulfully in an Age of Overload (eBook, ePUB)

How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World is a self-help workbook about how to take back some of the control that our phones/devices have in our daily lives.It offers realistic, inexpensive activities you can do to navigate the powerful influence of technology.Using humor and philosophy, it explores ways to live in the digital world without being overwhelmed.It‘s about how to live better with your device and without it.Advanced Praise for How to Live an Analog Life:"How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World" offers wonderfully creative escapes from the prison of digital devices that so many of us have trapped ourselves in. The advice and activities in this book offer keys to our freedom -- use them, and regain your most meaningful life.-- Michael Finkel, best-selling author of "The Art Thief" and "The Stranger in the Woods.""In How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World: A Workbook for Living Soulfully in an Age of Overload, Frank Possemato provides a timely reminder to look up from our screens more often and ground ourselves in our day-to-day surroundings and relationships. Possemato is a realisthe doesn‘t advocate any extreme approaches to tackling our screen dependency/addiction but instead offers very readable, down-to-earth, and practical suggestions. Reading the book is like talking to a good, smart friend over a bracing cup of coffee as you both figure out how to re-engage with the non-digital world."-- Natalie McKnight, Dean of Humanities, Boston University CGS"Read this book. You will not regret it."-- Jay Morris, Veteran and EntrepreneurThis book is an easy read at around 14k words, but the activities and ideas will stay with you and keep you coming back.Come join me on this journey of "living analog."I am a writer and teacher, and, like you, I struggle with my phone/computer/technology taking over my life. Overwhelmed with teaching/working online, I set out to write a book about how to find who you are when your device is off. In keeping with the "analog" theme, I wrote the first drafts of this book by hand, in notebooks I bought with change.This book is a person to person conversation with you, the reader, on how we can feel and be more human despite the digital world around us.Today is a great day to begin your journey to "living analog," living better with technology and without it.Let‘s get started!