Don't just check email

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jumping in and out of your inbox wastes time

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
0:05.3	podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.
0:08.2	If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.
0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
0:25.2	Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:41.8	Good morning. This is Laura.
0:45.2	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:48.1	Today's tip is to get out of the habit of just checking email.
0:53.6	Open your inbox when you've got the time and resources to deal with a reasonable chunk of your messages.
1:01.1	Otherwise, do something else.
1:05.2	Many of us have a complex relationship with our inboxes.
1:09.6	Email is an incredibly useful tool.
1:13.6	But in Cal Newport's recent book, A World Without Email,
1:17.3	he makes a good argument that email, in fact, makes us less productive.
1:22.8	That's because people flip in and out of their inboxes every six minutes on average during the workday.
1:29.1	If deep work gets done during the workday, it is pretty much by accident.
1:34.6	He also argues that email makes us miserable.
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