Phones are undeniably useful when you're out and about in the world. Directions, photos, music, messaging the people you're meeting up with, or even just scrolling while you're waiting for the bus—it's all great.

The problem with phones, in my opinion, is when you're at home. Home is the place where you might rather spend your time reading a book, practicing an instrument, or messing around in the garden. But everything is hard, almost impossible, when your phone is so freaking interesting.

That's why it's important to make your phone boring on purpose. Whenever we talk about how to break your smartphone addiction , a trick that’s commonly cited is to set your phone to gray scale . The problem: making your phone black and white and gray all the time makes it less useful during the t

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