Lesson 4 of 6
Why the obvious answer is not the answer
You have probably already tried deleting it. A weekend off, a blocker, the phone in a drawer.
It works while it lasts and it does very little afterwards, because the machinery was never the phone. The machinery is a measuring habit, and a measuring habit follows you into the drawer and starts on the people in the room.
There is also a specific reason not to build a detox with a countdown attached. A countdown becomes a streak, and a streak becomes a number you can lose. What that produces on the day you lose it is a larger version of the feeling you started with.