Sophie White: Cutting down on screen time is the quit smoking of our generation. I’ve found some ways to resist those dopamine inducing notifications

Everyone I know is lamenting their lack of ability to focus. We’re living in an age where notifications hound us from our pockets. Even if we turn notifications off on our phones, in our mind an inner bell is still dinging constantly, reminding us of the possibility that we might have notifications and suggesting oh-so-casually that ‘wouldn’t we might like to check them?’ And then there we are again dammit, sucked into the quicksand of the phone screen as another 20 minutes of our lives fly past.