The average office worker sends out 40 emails each day – that’s 14,600 emails in a year. (Source) If you spend so much time crafting emails, why not learn to do it more effectively? Writing better emails helps you save time, reduces stress, anxiety, and overload, and helps you get more of what you want. Here are 15 […]
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Email is a productivity nightmare. Studies show that we spend up to 28% of our workdays reading and responding to emails. We check our inboxes every five minutes or 74 times per day, on average. 70% of the time, we respond to alerts within a mere 6 seconds. As I’ve explained in great detail in our […]
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Imagine a world without email. …You wake up every morning without an urge to compulsively check your inbox. …You commute to work without checking email. …You go to the toilet without checking email. …You work at the office without checking email. …You go to sleep without checking email. How much more productive would you be? How much more focused, relaxed, and […]
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Our relationship with email is broken. According to a 2012 study, workers spend 28% of their work day reading and responding to email, and they check their inboxes a whopping 74 times a day. Another study found that office workers switched windows an average of 18 times each hour when they didn’t have access to email […]
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Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday is a book about your worst enemy that already lives inside you: your ego. Not me, you think. No one would ever call me an egomaniac. “Perhaps you’ve always thought of yourself as a pretty balanced person,” Ryan Holiday explains, “But for people with ambitions, talents, drives, and potential […]
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Ultralearning by Scott H. Young teaches you how to learn things quickly and effectively, so you can improve valuable skills, acquire new knowledge, and ultimately become a better version of yourself faster. The book starts off with fascinating examples of so-called ultralearners – people who achieved remarkable learning feats in short periods of time. It then […]
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“We limit how much technology our kids use in the home.” Steve Jobs uttered these words in a 2010 interview with New York Times journalist Nick Bilton. This was the same Steve Jobs who had unveiled the iPad just a few months earlier – and with enthusiasm, “What this device does is extraordinary… It offers the […]
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The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday is a book that reframes a forgotten formula for success: “What stands in the way becomes the way.” He shares countless stories of great men and women who succeeded in their lives because they lived by this formula. Holiday says, “Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will […]
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According to a Nielsen report, the average American spends more than 11 hours every day watching, reading, listening to, or otherwise interacting with media. Most of this time is spent watching live television (4:10), followed by smartphone use (2:22), radio (1:46), tablet use (0:47), and internet use on computer (0:39). Another statistic shows that we spend […]
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How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living is a book about the application of Stoic philosophy to the daily life by Massimo Pigliucci. “In every culture we know of”, the author begins the book, “the question of how to live is central.” How should we handle life’s challenges and how should we treat […]
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