Clearing out everything in your inbox feels great.
You get a sense of accomplishment and your to-do list feels a little less burdensome.
Except, productivity isnt measured by how many emails you answer.
Instead, learn to manage how you spend your attention.
In the modern world more than ever, attention is currency.
What you pay attention to determines where your productive energy gets spent.
Worse yet, sending emails just begets more emails.
While communication is great when its necessary, email on its own is merely a tool.
As we seek to maximize our time, we slice and dice it into ever-smaller increments.
When we scatter our attention across a thousand micro-activities, we prevent ourselves from engaging deeply or thinking properly.
Of course, that doesnt mean that email is evil.
If you have a message you oughta reply to, respond.
Learning when its productive to pay attention to email and when you should ignore it is a necessary skill.
Time management is only making our busy lives worse| Quartz via99u
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