MY BRAIN HAS TOO MANY TABS OPEN
“An insightful, informative and, most-importantly, enjoyable and easily-digested look at how we mis-use tech today and specifically how to recognise and break the bad habits many of us have developed.”
ABOUT THE BOOK
“The tone is calm and compassionate while an appealing typographic design further humanises the topic. Both schools and workplaces would benefit from adopting and promoting the high-level of tech self-awareness and guiding principles of engagement set out here.” Amazon 5* Review
What are you willing to lose for a connected life? My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open explores the cost that our digital life inflicts on our offline existence, and offers a toolkit to anyone who has lost their way.
Whether you are dealing with a partner who is mindlessly scrolling rather than listening to you (phubbing), flooding social media with your child’s image (sharenting), or panicking whenever you misplace your phone (nomophobia), learn how to recognise and label dependent behaviours – both of yourself and others – and find actionable answers in this book.
Complete with diagnostic guides to tell-tale signs and a manifesto for improved digital citizenship, this habit-improving bible offers the conversation-starting vocabulary we so desperately need to understand and untangle our relationship with technology for a more humane world.
“Learn how to recognise and label dependent behaviours – both of yourself and others – and find actionable answers.”
WHAT’S INSIDE
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Doomscrolling – endlessly consuming doom-and-gloom news, a habit perpetuated by attention-seeking algorithms that triggers anxiety and depression
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Comparison Culture – 52% of teens feel less confident because of feeling inadequate when comparing their social media profiles with other people’s
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Vampire Shoppers – dead-of-night, sleepless shoppers who spend a third more than daytime shoppers, and range from nocturnal gamers to exhausted parents
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Digital Legacies– before the end of the century there could be 4.9 billion deceased internet users, yet only 7% of us want our online profiles maintained after death
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Cyberchondria – Dr Google is causing a wave of misdiagnoses from anxious searchers, with 35% of all US adults among this number
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And many more inside ‘My Brain has Too Many Tabs Open’…
KIND WORDS
"Tanya Goodin's new book is informative, alarming, and galvanising.“
The Telegraph
"An insightful, informative and, most-importantly, enjoyable and easily-digested look at how we mis-use tech today and specifically how to recognise and break the bad habits many of us have developed. The tone is calm and compassionate while an appealing typographic design further humanises the topic. Both schools and workplaces would benefit from adopting and promoting the high-level of tech self-awareness and guiding principles of engagement set out here.“
Amazon 5* Review
"Engaging story-telling and practical solutions. I really enjoyed reading this book - each chapter has a problem and then some practical solutions. It is all well and good to say 'use social media less' but actually having a focused way to wean ourselves off it makes it feel possible. The style is easy to read and has given me pause for thought. We all need a copy of this book!
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Amazon 5* Review
"As well as being a great read, this book is a very timely wake-up call. Goodin shows us how we can make a conscious choice to prioritise real human relationships over pseudo digital ones.“
Amazon 5* Review
"A highly readable overview of the primary problems technology poses the average person. Goodin's book offers attainable and realistic ways to reduce technology use and the burdens it can place on us as individuals and our relationships. Never felt patronising either, which is important, because who wants to be patronised?"
5* Review Goodreads
"I flew through this book in an afternoon as so much of it resonated with me. From ‘nomophobia’ to ‘multi-screening’, the book identifies a host of unhelpful consequences of our digital world, and entertainingly illustrates them with real life examples. It goes on to give pithy and practical advice about how to deal with each problem, and has made me freshly evaluate my relationship with tech. Highly recommended.”
Amazon 5* Review
"Thought-provoking, real-life scenarios of the consequences of our sometimes tenuous relationship with technology - as well as a number of mechanisms for identifying and finding solutions for dependent behaviours."
Amazon 5* Review
"Highly readable book that gives us all pause for thought especially as our reliance on the digital world seems to be spiralling in the last 18 months."
Amazon 5* Review
"I really enjoyed this book. Goodin presented lots of facts along with personal stories that give an insight into why too much time online can be an issue. She has great advice that we could all apply to our tech usage."
5* Review Goodreads
"Tanya Goodin's new book is informative, alarming, and galvanising.“
The Telegraph
"An insightful, informative and, most-importantly, enjoyable and easily-digested look at how we mis-use tech today and specifically how to recognise and break the bad habits many of us have developed. The tone is calm and compassionate while an appealing typographic design further humanises the topic. Both schools and workplaces would benefit from adopting and promoting the high-level of tech self-awareness and guiding principles of engagement set out here.“
Amazon 5* Review
"Engaging story-telling and practical solutions. I really enjoyed reading this book - each chapter has a problem and then some practical solutions. It is all well and good to say 'use social media less' but actually having a focused way to wean ourselves off it makes it feel possible. The style is easy to read and has given me pause for thought. We all need a copy of this book! “
Amazon 5* Review
"As well as being a great read, this book is a very timely wake-up call. Goodin shows us how we can make a conscious choice to prioritise real human relationships over pseudo digital ones.“
Amazon 5* Review
"A highly readable overview of the primary problems technology poses the average person. Goodin's book offers attainable and realistic ways to reduce technology use and the burdens it can place on us as individuals and our relationships. Never felt patronising either, which is important, because who wants to be patronised?"
5* Review Goodreads
"I flew through this book in an afternoon as so much of it resonated with me. From ‘nomophobia’ to ‘multi-screening’, the book identifies a host of unhelpful consequences of our digital world, and entertainingly illustrates them with real life examples. It goes on to give pithy and practical advice about how to deal with each problem, and has made me freshly evaluate my relationship with tech. Highly recommended.”
Amazon 5* Review
"Thought-provoking, real-life scenarios of the consequences of our sometimes tenuous relationship with technology - as well as a number of mechanisms for identifying and finding solutions for dependent behaviours."
Amazon 5* Review
"Highly readable book that gives us all pause for thought especially as our reliance on the digital world seems to be spiralling in the last 18 months."
Amazon 5* Review
"I really enjoyed this book. Goodin presented lots of facts along with personal stories that give an insight into why too much time online can be an issue. She has great advice that we could all apply to our tech usage."
5* Review Goodreads
UNTANGLE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TECH
Practical solutions and descriptions of situations we all struggle with daily will help you untangle your relationship with tech and put you back in control, not your phone or the social media platform. Take back control now.
“Tanya Goodin is a digital detox campaigner and agony aunt sounding the alarm on digital lifestyle issues we wrestle with daily”.
OTHER BOOKS
Tanya has written another two books on our relationship with technology: ‘Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life’ is a pocket-sized guide for all ages on switching off and enjoying a more balanced relationship with tech. ‘Stop Staring at Screens’ is a practical handbook for families to read together to find ways of living happily with screens at home.
OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life
“She presents simple ideas alongside practical suggestions for how to implement them – leaving you inspired and motivated by the end.”
Stop Staring at Screens!
“Perhaps the best compliment I can pay this is that as soon as I started reading this, my 13-year-old son started looking over my shoulder, and in short order said, “I want to read this as soon as you’re done. And I want to do this.”