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12: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

Bookworm

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How to Say No to Requests

The average US worker according to the Huffington Post spends 6.3 hours per day dealing with email. If you make even $25 an hour, that's $150 worth of your time. The interruptions associated with email account for you losing about 3.9 total workdays a week. Most people would say $150 a day just to handle my email. That's ridiculous. And there's additional costs too with the wellness because there's a lot of research that shows that handling email creates more stress and decreases your life expectancy.

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