Best of: How To Kill Email Anxiety and Get Real Work Done with Jocelyn Glei
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unmistakable Creative, we delve into the world of email anxiety with renowned author and creativity expert Jocelyn K. Glei. Jocelyn likens our email inboxes to a slot machine filled with a mix of disappointments and random rewards that keep us hooked. She discusses the psychological mechanisms that drive our email-checking habits and offers insights into how we can break free from this addictive cycle.
Jocelyn K. Glei, a writer with a deep fascination for work, careers, and creativity, is the author of four books, including the highly acclaimed 'Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done.' In this episode, she shares her expertise in managing email anxiety, setting boundaries, and prioritizing meaningful work over busy work.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone struggling with email overload and seeking strategies to regain control over their inbox. Discover how to transform your relationship with email from a source of stress to a manageable part of your daily routine. Tune in to learn how to kill email anxiety and boost your productivity.
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Your email functions like a slot machine. you know, most of the time, you know, you pull the lever sort of to check your email |
| 0:40.2 | and, you know, you kind of lose, right? |
| 0:43.1 | You get something that's kind of disappointing. |
| 0:45.3 | You know, maybe it's an email from a frustrated client or, you know, it's a message |
| 0:49.1 | your boss asking you to do something. |
| 0:51.2 | You don't really feel like doing. |
| 0:52.8 | But then every once in a while, you get, as I did the other day, an email actually from a long-lost childhood friend, or, you know, |
| 0:58.9 | you get an invitation to speak at a conference that, you know, is very flattering. And so it's kind |
| 1:04.7 | of this idea of these random rewards that are kind of mixed in with all that annoying stuff and |
| 1:09.7 | mixed in with all the junk that |
| 1:11.9 | activates this kind of seeking mechanism in our brain and makes us want to kind of, you know, |
| 1:17.7 | go back and check and check and check again and again to see if there are any of those kind |
| 1:22.5 | of random rewards in there. But it is, it's very much the fact that they're not just sort of, |
| 1:29.3 | you never know what to expect. |
| 1:29.9 | It's kind of the driving force behind part of that addiction. |
| 1:37.8 | I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into |
| 1:42.4 | the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written |
| 1:48.6 | bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive |
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