Americans spend way too much time on email, and it’s breaking our creative flow and making us less productive. In this episode, we talk about the reasons why this is, and how you can break the cycle and spend more time out of your inbox taking action on the things that really matter.

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Cheat Sheet

Why the corporate email culture is so unhealthy

The amazing results people have been getting from our inbox zero challenge

The real reasons people spend so much time in email (and how you change your mindset to escape your email)

How to create more time to spend doing work that actually adds value to your business

Why email often functions as a to-do list that other people can write on and how you can change this so you can be more intentional about your work

The unconscious (and unproductive) behavior patterns that people fall in to when it comes to email

How email breaks your flow and what you can do to stop your focus train from being derailed

Thanh’s personal email horror stories

How you can get people to communicate with you over email on your terms

Links

The Escape Your Email registration page

The Simple Guide to Managing Your Email with the Asian Efficiency Email Workflow

The Willpower Instinct

TPS38: I Know Kung Fu w/ Patrick Hart

Boomerang for Gmail

Become More Productive with the Pomodoro Technique

The Best Way to Handle Email on Your Mobile Device (Thanh's article)

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