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Julian Stokes Audiobooks

The Mindful Screen: a compact guide to using devices on purpose, not by reflex

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Personal Development

Who is Julian Stokes?

Mindfulness and screens are usually set against each other, one presented as the antidote to the other. The title Julian Stokes brings to our catalogue quietly refuses that framing before a word is spoken. The Mindful Screen assumes the device is staying, and asks the more useful question of how to remain present while holding one.

The shape of the thing reinforces the point. Just over an hour on the personal development shelf is a deliberately modest ask, closer to a considered conversation than a programme. There is no methodology to enrol in and no lengthy diagnosis of modern life to sit through before the practical part begins.

Beyond the work itself the record is quiet, which leaves the listening to do the talking. Fair enough: attention is the subject, and a book about attention ought to earn yours quickly.

Julian Stokes in audiobooks

Robyn Green reads, at a length that fits a walk, a train journey or the washing up. That accessibility is part of the design rather than a limitation of it.

No ratings have gathered yet, so first impressions are yours to form without a crowd looking over your shoulder. The natural approach is to listen straight through, then return to whichever section stung a little. Those already working through habit books, digital boundaries or simple attention practice will find this an easy addition rather than another commitment. What is gathered below will show you where to begin.