Email is a small, solvable problem.
We receive an email from someone asking us something, wanting something, needing a response, needing our attention. Who me? Someone NEEDS me??
Instantly the most important thing in the world becomes emailing them back so we can complete the circle, responding to the need presented to us.
And there’s nothing inherently wrong with that.
It feels good. I did something. They needed me to respond and I responded.
But emailing (or tweeting, or facebooking) is often times just a socially acceptable way to procrastinate.
Because you should be doing something else, not checking your email. Email is small.
You should have bigger problems you’re working on.
You shouldn’t have time to turn around every time someone taps you on your digital shoulder. At least not immediately.
Again, email is a small, solvable problem. So you should, in fact, solve it. And you get a gold star (in your brain) when you solve that problem.
But don’t mistake a bunch of gold stars for the gold crown that comes with solving the big problems, doing the hard work, doing the long work.
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