The 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week Audiobook (Free)

In 24/6, Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off displays one day per week could work wonders on your brain, body, and soul.

Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain needs us on a provocative and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a strategy for living in our 24/7 world: turning off all screens for twenty-four hours every week. This practice, which she’s carried out for nearly ten years with her spouse and kids (sixteen and ten), offers completely changed their lives, about The 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week providing them with more time, efficiency, connection, and existence. She and her family call it “Technology Shabbat.”

Drawn from your ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 could work for anybody from any history. With humor and wisdom, Shlain stocks her story, gives lessons she has learned, and a blueprint for how to do-it-yourself. Along the way, she delves in to the neuroscience, idea, psychology, and background of a weekly day time of rest across ethnicities, making the situation for why we have to bring this ritual back again.

A compelling personal story and a remarkable, far-reaching study of the complex world we’ve created, 24/6 is a call to rebalance ourselves and our culture.