The Glass Prision

It's not a lack of willpower. It's a trap designed by the best engineers on the planet, built on the same principles as slot machines and optimized using millions of data points on how your brain works. The Glass Prison doesn't ask you to try harder. It explains exactly how the trap works: Why infinite scroll exploits the same mechanism as compulsive gambling, how the phone creates the anxiety it then pretends to relieve, and why every app is designed so that the time you spend on it never feels like enough. Based on the principle Allen Carr applied to smoking, not fighting the desire, but dismantling the illusion that the object gives you something, this book goes further: it adds the dimension of deliberate design, the neuroscience of boredom and the Default Mode Network, as well as the specific mechanisms that make this addiction different from all the others. When you understand with clarity how the prison works, you don't need to escape. You simply stop being inside it.