Your Best Digital Life - by Jonathan Garner & Menka Sanghvi (Paperback)

About the Book

This practical guide gives readers the tools they need to reevaluate their personal relationship with technology and change their digital habits for the better.

Book Synopsis

Transform Your Relationship With Tech (Without Breaking Things Off Completely)

It's no secret that we often use our tech mindlessly. In fact, digital innovations increasingly make it so that we barely need to think at all. Streaming services tell us what to watch next. Influencers tell us what to buy next. The GPS tells us where to turn next. But the more we allow algorithms, apps and artificial intelligence to guide our behavior, the less control we have over who we intend to be. And because we've made a habit out of relying on the supercomputer in our pocket or the helpful digital voice on the other end of our smart speaker, we've lost access to the skills we need to break the hold tech has over us.

Thankfully, world-leading digital habits experts Jonathan Garner and Menka Sanghvi have discovered a way to improve our relationship with digital technology that doesn't involve throwing your phone in a lake, helping you use the latest tech without losing yourself.

In this groundbreaking book, Garner and Sanghvi share their key principles that uncover the trick to going beyond digital detoxes, the unlikely benefits of inconvenience and the secret of intentional habits. Through a mix of storytelling and cutting-edge insights from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness, they introduce their unique M.O.R.E Method, guiding you through a series of practices that will build your mental muscles of observing, reflecting and experimenting. This book will reveal your digital blind spots and build positive digital habits so you can reconnect with what matters most to you.

Reimagine your distracting digital devices as tools for reclaiming your sanity, time and relationships.

Review Quotes

"The best way to get more value from the digital age is not by upgrading our technology. Instead we need to upgrade our psychology to make better use of the technology we already have. It has taken me decades to learn the eye-opening lessons you will find in this book."
--RORY SUTHERLAND, author of Alchemy and Vice Chairman at Ogilvy

"A timely guide to reclaiming inner freedom by guiding our digital habits with intention. Essential for anyone seeking to inhabit their Being, rather than letting technology dictate unconscious habit patterns."
--NIPUN MEHTA, founder, ServiceSpace

"We all know that our smartphones and social media are eating our brains; but fighting back often feels impossible (and besides, FOMO). In this hopeful and practical book, Jonathan Garner and Menka Sanghvi show how you can rethink and redesign your digital life, and offer step-by-step guidance to mobilize your attention, observe your behavior, reflect on your action, and experiment with new tools and habits to build your best digital life."
--ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG, author of The Distraction Addiction, Rest, and Work Less, Do More

"Entrepreneurs often face tech overload. Garner and Sanghvi provide a masterclass in using digital tools without letting them take over your life."
--ANDY BUDD, author of The Growth Equation

"The list of challenges related to our digital devices goes on and on - as do all the manuals and blogs devoted to 'fixing' these problems. But Garner and Sanghvi's book really cuts through, not just because their 'M.O.R.E.' method is highly memorable and effective in shifting our digital habits, but because it's grounded in principles of growth and exploration that apply equally to so many other aspects of our daily lives."
--DAN NIXON, author of The Perpetual Beginner Substack

"Imagine leaving your phone at home next time you go for a walk, to work or to meet a friend for a coffee. What you are feeling now is why everyone needs this book."
--RYAN HOPKINS, author of 52 Weeks of Wellbeing

About the Author

Jonathan Garner is the founder of Mind Over Tech and a 20 year practitioner of Buddhist meditation. Menka Sanghvi is the host of Mind Over Tech's podcast, policy advisor at The Mindfulness Initiative, and a trustee of the global wellbeing charity Breathworks. Both authors have garnered multiple accolades and press, while Mind over Tech has been singled out for even more accolades and awards, partnering with leading global organizations like Google, The Guardian, Vodafone, and the NHS to train thousands of people using the MORE methodology.