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Your email addiction

Your email addiction

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Your email addiction

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- [Instructor] Link number one. Addiction to email checking is keeping us from attending from what's important in life. How many times per day do you stop to check your email? Do you try to avoid it all together, or are you one of those people that hits refresh again and again, waiting for the next message? Even if you know you're a little obsessive, you may be more addicted than you think. Just consider this unsettling statistic, the average office worker checks their inbox 74 times a day. This isn't because people are given a 10 minute deadline to reply, it's because the very act of checking email is addictive. Perhaps you think that an inbox overflowing with unread emails is a daunting task waiting to be tackled, but that's not exactly the case. Each of these unread messages holds out the promise of a pleasant surprise of some interesting of fantastic news. So, even if the thought of getting back on top of you…

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