Offline

Self-help

Lars Zejna

Eulogia Verlag

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160 pages

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Where Real Life Begins: Step by Step Away from Social Media and Constant Availability, Towards Inner Calm, Clarity and True Freedom

Take back your attention. “Just a quick look at my phone”, and suddenly hours are gone. If, reading the opening of this book, you already sensed how familiar seven hours of screen time, dopamine scrolling, red notifications and the permanent “I just need to check something quickly” feel, then Offline is your counter-proposal.

Author Lars Zejna (YouTube @larsunfiltered) pursues a clear mission: people should spend less time on their phones and find their way back into real life. Rather than wagging a finger, he takes you into everyday scenes you know (the schoolyard, the platform, the waiting room, the café) and shows why our use so often tips over: not out of “weakness”, but because apps and devices are optimised for attention.

This book is a problem solver. It makes the mechanisms behind “stories instead of real stories”, multitasking and constant stimulation understandable, and leads you step by step to a healthier relationship with technology, so that you decide for yourself again what deserves your focus.

What the book gives you in concrete terms:

  • You understand why screen time “explodes” so quickly and what that has to do with habits.
  • You recognise the patterns behind the feed, scrolling and notifications that keep pulling you back.
  • You get a guide to “productive use” instead of losing yourself in the illusion of productivity.
  • You regain room for focus, presence and real conversations, without a digital-detox show.
  • You receive impulses that are relevant for families too (including the section “To all parents”).

If you no longer want to be steered by the next red number, the next swipe and the next “just quickly”, it begins right here: offline, and so finally back with yourself. The book is also a safe choice as a gift for friends, partners or family members who wish for more calm, focus and real life beyond the screen.

Lars Zejna

Lars Zejna is an author and creator who documents his path to less screen time: consistent, practical and without a wagging finger. Instead of chasing the next smartphone hype, he deliberately uses a device as old as he is. On his channels he talks about responsibility in dealing with the phone, about the influence of the big platforms and about how digital habits can be changed for good. His goal is a life in which we experience more real stories again rather than only watching stories. Offline is his first book. https://www.eulogiaverlag.de/authors/lars-zejna

Agence Schweiger