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The best way to manage your inbox is to send fewer emails

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Do you feel stressed, distracted, and overwhelmed when you see new emails pop up in your email inbox?
All of that uncertainty provides a powerful draw to see what we might find when we next open our email inbox.
As with many things in life that take more time and attention than we’d like, we can get our email inbox under full control.
Yet, our brain’s weakness for variable rewards makes us treat every message in our email inbox as if it’s time-sensitive.
After you test this out, leave a comment below and let me know how office hours have helped save you from your email inbox.

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