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Get your attention back with a 30-day protocol that assumes you'll break it — a screen-time ledger without moralizing, friction engineering (what to delete, grayscale, where the phone sleeps), planned relapses, and honest replacement activities for the boredom that shows up on day 3. Use when someone says 'my screen time is 7 hours', 'I want a dumbphone', 'digital detox', 'I can't read books anymore', or 'my attention span is gone'. Produces the ledger, a personal friction plan, and the 30-day protocol with expected failure points.

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# Attention Reset Skill

Attention didn't get weak — it got outbid. Apps engineered by thousands of
people compete for it against your unread book, and the book was never going
to win on willpower. So this protocol doesn't use willpower: it uses
*friction* — making the scroll slightly harder and the alternative slightly
easier — plus honest accounting, planned relapses (day 3 and day 12 are
coming; a plan that pretends otherwise is a plan for shame), and the missing
piece in every detox thread: you can't delete a habit, only replace it, so
the replacement gets designed with the same care as the deletions. Bennett
wrote the original time audit in 1908; this is the sequel his readers didn't
need yet — [[bennett-time-audit]] assumed your evening was empty; your phone
disagrees.
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