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#317 - Cal Newport - How To Master Your Email Overload
Modern Wisdom
The Neurological Cost of Email
This chapter explores the primary issue with email, which is the neurological cost of network switching. It explains how human attention systems are sequential and describe the time and energy it takes to switch cognitive context. The chapter highlights that the checking of inboxes triggers network switches, but often these switches are aborted before completion, resulting in repeated partial network switches. This leads to reduced clarity of thinking, cognitive exhaustion, and anxiety.
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