Why can't I even sit still for a minute without my phone?

You take your phone to the bathroom. You fill every gap — waiting, walking, sitting — with content. There is no moment left in your day when your mind is simply alone with itself. This is not weak willpower. The mind, left unmediated, throws up its own noise — old worries, stray thoughts, low static. Most people have never sat with that noise long enough to see what it actually is. The phone arrives before the noise does, so the noise never gets known. Done with others, this becomes easier to see and easier to change. Alone, you will rationalize the reach for the phone every time. With a partner or pod checking in, the gap becomes a shared practice instead of a private failure.