"How to win friends and influence people" is a great book.
I can also recommend How to Talk to Anyone: "92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships"
by Leil Lowndes
as the kids just take them out as soon as the teacher turns their back
When I was in school the teacher's were seizing the phone if they caught you with it in class and sometimes require your parents to pick it up after school
I had problems with eye contact for a long time, but for some reason it stopped being a problem arround the age of 15-16 and when I read in a social skills book's (yes I need manuals for social interactions) that eye contact is important, I started to force my self into eye contact.
Maybe this has also something to do with people telling me that they find my eyes beautiful, but I don't know
Psychologically the carrot is better than the stick, meaning you’ll keep fighting the lock-out mechanism, eventually resenting it and removing it.
The logout mechanism just needs to though me out of my way and take at least 5 minutes (better more) to circumvent, this will probably be enough for me to do the right thing.
Having an alert to remind you that you wanted to stop will be more pursuasive. (I have a “go to bed” alarm with a gentle, gradually increasing volume on my phone)
I tried this for many times, but ended up just dismising the alarms because my will is weak
As I only use sudo to update my system, I could use a user that doesn't has sudo access and set up some a cron job to do updates once a day.
And flatpak instalation and updating doesn't require sudo at all
Not necessary the operating system it self, but the things I do with Linux, like researching stuff, enganging in discussion's and playing games, are addictive for me
There are more actionable books