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Matt Haig’s Notes on a Nervous Planet is an introspective examination of the anxieties and pressures we experience when our phones are constantly feeding us notifications and news. There are many reasons to worry, but they can be opportunities to pause and reflect on our own lives in the context of the modern world. The book is a skillfully written and atypical self-help, full of bites of psychological insights, designed that way to cater to modern-day readers whose attention is already stretched painfully thin. It examines how our hyper-connected planet influences our mental health, forcing readers to assess their own relationships with technology. It may be a bit repetitive at times, maybe to reinforce specific points, but it may also make the narrative seem unnecessarily stretched out at certain points. All in all, it is an essential reminder to slow down and reconnect with ourselves amidst the overwhelming noise of the modern world.

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