Alex Wood

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Chapter 15

Credit Cards

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Wood explains how credit cards were more a vessel to acquiring other vices than being a vice. Setting boundaries on how credit cards would be used was the fight at hand. 4 $0.40 Add
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Chapter 16

Gossip

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Communcation and sharing stories is natural for humans, Wood notes, before explaining how gossip can have similarities to the highs and lows of other addictions. Though tempted early on, Wood … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 17

Sugar

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Wood notes how difficult it is to quit sugar, especially with its ubiquity in everyday life and the general lack of support when accomplishing one’s goal. Changing one’s habits was … 6 $0.60 Add
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Chapter 18

Social Media

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Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter 19

Smartphone

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Wood details many of the problems linked to cellphones, though specifically smartphones. Health afflictions, mental health, relationships, car crashes, as well as other unsettling statisitics. As … 16 $1.60 Add
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Epilogue

The Fight of My Life

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The book wraps up with Wood discussing boxing and how a fighter just needs to keep getting up. One loss doesn’t mean everything is over. After a big relapse, Wood is diagnosed with … 11 $1.10 Add