Looks like I’m cutting the email leash not a moment too soon. Take a look at this stunning quote from a recent Business Week article:
Scrolling through e-mail and punching out text messages fire up the dopamine-reward system, unleashing a pleasure-inducing hit that for an estimated 6% of Internet users has become clinically addictive, says University of Michigan psychology professor David Meyer.
Scary. But it makes sense. Emailers Anonymous anyone?
via The Lazy Business Owner (one blog that made it through my recent information diet cut)
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I get 300 emails a day. I have fallen in love with my Blackberry. Now, I have not been able to cut the cord, but I have reduced my responses to 5 words or less on about 250 of them. Not exactly cutting the cord but working on it.
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Liberal deleting and short answers is a good start. Small steps will get you there. Best of luck!
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@Darren,
Yeah, I stayed away from the Crackberry, thankfully! I went to a totally basic phone, if I could get the camera and text off it I would, just so it could be NOTHING but a phone!
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