Could you give up your smartphone for a month?

你能放下手机一个月吗?

Post Reports

2025-11-23

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A group in D.C. ditched their smartphones for a month. Washington Post reporter Brittany Shammas joined them. Here’s what she learned. If you want to learn more about Brittany’s story, you can read it here.  To subscribe to The Optimist’s newsletter, click here. Today’s show was produced by Maggie Penman and Ted Muldoon, who also mixed the show.  Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
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  • I want you to tell me about this experiment you did on yourself.

  • What did you do?

  • So for a whole month, I put away my smartphone and switched over to a flip phone or a dumb phone and navigated life.

  • Like it was 1995, right?

  • Exactly.

  • Britney Shamus is a local enterprise reporter for The Post.

  • And a few months ago, she joined this group in DC to do something that a lot of us fantasize about.

  • She put her smartphone away for a whole month.

  • It all started for Britney with this morning routine that a lot of us have.

  • So, I mean, I had this habit of starting all my mornings by reaching for my phone on my nightstand and scrolling through Twitter.

  • Immediately checking all the names.

  • But also all the social media apps.

  • And I had thought over the years like this probably isn't the most healthy way to start a day, but I would just keep doing it.