别让邮件毁了一天：高效管理电邮的秘密_职场英语

别让邮件毁了一天：高效管理电邮的秘密

A report from McKinsey last year estimated that the average knowledge worker spent 28% of their workday on email. Tech consultant Linda Stone has coined the term “email apnea” (and the more general “screen apnea”) to describe the curious behavior that most of us display when reading email and other screen related tasks: we actually hold our breath. And like sleep apnea which is responsible for a host of maladies, email and screen apnea sap our energy and increase our body’s tension.

去年麦肯锡的一份报告估计，普通的知识工作者每个工作日有28%的时间花在处理电子邮件上。技术顾问琳达·斯通发明了“电邮呼吸暂停”（以及更流行的“屏幕呼吸暂停”）这个词，以形容我们大多数人在阅读电子邮件和完成其他与屏幕有关的任务时的古怪行为：我们实际上屏住了呼吸。跟导致一系列疾病的睡眠呼吸暂停一样，电邮和屏幕呼吸暂停吞蚀了我们的精力，提高了我们身体的紧张程度。

So beyond the suggestion to not let others shape your own priorities, starting your day with email can literally have a detrimental effect on the rest of your day. Best-selling author and founder of The Energy Project, Tony Schwartz, argues that we have to build renewal of our energy into our work day. Scott Belsky, co-founder on Behance and now VP of Community at Adobe, recommends not reaching for your smartphone in the interstices between meetings, but rather to allow for some unstructured time for your mind to both recharge and also absorb what just happened.