From Screen Addiction to Self-Love: How BOOX Supports Your Personal Growth Journey
With Valentine’s Day and spring approaching, many of us are turning our focus towards self-love and self-growth. Getting started, however, can feel challenging. It's like being stuck outside a game of Double Dutch, unsure of how to jump in.
What is holding us back and wasting our time? The things that have been designed to steal your attention. Surveys from 2025 show that the average adult now spends 6.5 to 7.5 hours in front of screens. BOOX is different; devices like the Note Air5 C are designed to help you reclaim your time and attention. To understand why breaking free from distractions is so difficult, we need to look at what's happening in our brains.
Dopamine and Addiction
Understanding what screen addiction is and why we are motivated to waste our own time all boils down to one neurotransmitter: dopamine.
Commonly known as the "feel good" chemical, dopamine is responsible for the pleasure you feel when you do something difficult, for the motivation to get out of bed in the morning, and for your general mood throughout. Unfortunately, while dopamine can help motivate us to make our lives better and feel good about ourselves, it can be easily tricked by things like sugar, nicotine, and our own technology.
How Technology Can Exploit Dopamine
Our brains can become addicted to things that are bad for us, and some devices and apps are created to be as addictive as possible.
Some apps work like entertainment slot machines. They give you content that makes you happy, but only sometimes. This makes you crave the next scroll. You're always searching for the next exciting thing. All the while you're wasting your time and energy.
The Social Media Trap
Social media is also a culprit. When you're constantly looking at everyone else's social media, you end up comparing your own life to everyone else's. This can cause you to become less satisfied with your real life. It can make you less happy with where you are in life. Or we can spend too much time on these apps, and begin to hate how much time we've wasted. We hate how little we are accomplishing. We blame ourselves, even though our technology can be the source of your issues.
Getting back on track with BOOX ePaper
The good news is there's a solution that doesn't require ditching your devices. Start putting your time towards activities that bring sustainable happiness, like reading, writing, and working towards your goals. Uninstall time-wasting apps, or put locks on them. You can even alter your device settings to make colors duller and reduce notifications.
There are even devices specifically designed to help you live intentionally. BOOX devices aren't built for social media or notifications. They help you read on eye-friendly ePaper, provide a natural writing experience, and keep you connected only to essential apps. Your mental energy and dopamine are both finite. BOOX leaves space for what matters: your personal growth and self-love.
BOOX for Leisure
BOOX devices aren't designed to be addictive. Instead, they are packed full of features that actively help you in your journey to self-growth. If you feel like you go on your devices and suddenly you've wasted an hour, then having a BOOX device like the Palma 2 Pro might be a saving grace. BOOX devices can support some brain-training games, like chess, sudoku, and text-based games like crosswords. These types of games don't demand constant attention. These slow-paced intellectual games promote cognitive improvement and deep thinking. They encourage skill development while leaving you feeling refreshed rather than drained.
BOOX for Skill Building
When you spend your time learning and working on new skills, you will feel a lot more accomplished. BOOX devices are made with skill-building in mind. They contain a browser so that you can access your online courses, and allow you to download your learning apps onto the device via the preinstalled Google Play Store. You can also read any material in the Neoreader, pdfs, epubs, and many more. Some BOOX devices like the Note Air5 C have pen support, so you can spend your screen time taking notes, learning, and building new skills.
BOOX for Self-Care
Looking inwards can help you figure out what has worked and what can help you feel more accomplished and worthy of your own love. And we can use our tech to help us with it. BOOX devices provide a digital space that contains everything you need to process emotions, practice gratitude, and track your growth. Self-reflection can help you figure out your desires and shortcomings. They even come preloaded with different planning and tracking templates in the Notes app.
Spending your time intentionally on things that will bring value to your life will allow you to make great strides towards self-growth. And when you feel accomplished and fulfilled? That's when self-love comes more easily.
Conclusion
Feeling stuck in your bad habits is normal, and it all goes back to the chemicals in your brain that are being tricked by your technology. That's why picking the right technology matters. BOOX devices are built for intentional living, for those things you've been meaning to work on but have been distracted from. They can help you reclaim mental energy for reading, learning, and becoming someone you're proud of. Find the device that fits your personal journey at the BOOX shop.
