Best of: How To Kill Email Anxiety and Get Real Work Done with Jocelyn Glei

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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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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0:13.8	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 and you know you kind of lose right you get something that's kind of disappointing, you know, maybe it's an email from a frustrated client or, you know, it's a message-proof off asking you to do
0:18.5	something, you don't really feel like doing. But then every once in a while you get, as did the other day an email actually from a long lost childhood friend or you know you get an invitation to speak at a conference that you know is very flattering and so it's kind of this idea of these random rewards
0:34.8	that are kind of mixed in with all that annoying stuff and mixed in with all the
0:38.3	junk that activates this kind of seeking mechanism in our brain and makes us want to kind of you know go back and check and check and check again and again to see if there are any of those kind of random rewards in there but it is it's very much the fact that they're not just sort of,
0:55.9	you never know what to expect.
0:57.8	That's kind of the driving force behind part of that addiction. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements,
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