In 24/6, Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off displays one day per week could work wonders on your own brain, body, and soul.

Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain needs us on the provocative and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a technique for surviving in our 24/7 world: turning off all displays for twenty-four hours every week. This practice, which she’s done for nearly ten years with her husband and kids (sixteen and ten), provides completely changed their lives, about The 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week giving them more time, productivity, connection, and existence. She and her family members call it “Technology Shabbat.”

Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and intelligence, Shlain stocks her story, gives lessons she has learned, and provides a blueprint for how to do-it-yourself. Along the way, she delves in to the neuroscience, viewpoint, psychology, and history of a weekly time of rest across ethnicities, making the case for why we need to bring this ritual back again.

A compelling personal story and a remarkable, far-reaching examination of the complex globe we’ve created, 24/6 is a call to rebalance ourselves and our society.