24/6 - The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Tiffany Shlain

Gallery Books

2019

196 páginas

6h 32m

ISBN-10: 1982116862

Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes us on an entertaining journey into a strategy for living in our 24/7 world: turning off all screens for 24 hours each week. She and her family call it “Technology Shabbat.” This weekly practice, which they’ve done for nearly a decade with their kids (16 & 10), has completely changed their lives, giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence.

Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With wit and wisdom, Shlain offers lessons she has learned and provides a blueprint to do it yourself. And along the way, she examines the neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and history of a day of rest across cultures and history and makes an argument for why we need to bring it back.

A far-reaching examination of the digital revolution and the complex world we’ve created, 24/6 is an incisive, intimate, and urgent call to rebalance ourselves, and ultimately help rebalance society through a transformative weekly practice.