292 Hours...

One survey says that the average smartphone user spends 3 hours and 15 minutes on their phone each day. Now, let’s be generous and say that 75% of that time is essential, useful or productive - that’s still over 48 minutes a day of mindless scrolling. And let’s also (generously) say that 75% of that non-essential time couldn’t be used for anything else (e.g. a quick check in the supermarket queue). We would still end up with 12 minutes a day that could be spent doing something else.

Not much…

..unless you present it another way, say as 75 hours a year, or two working weeks.

But let’s not be generous. Let’s make it a more realistic 50% and 50%. Suddenly that becomes an eye-watering 292 hours a year. Or over seven working weeks.

I wonder how much knowledge we would gain in 292 hours if we carried a good personal development book alongside our smartphone, and turned to that a few times each day instead…