{"id":22553,"date":"2018-08-24T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22553"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:38:15","slug":"how-i-kicked-my-e-mail-compulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/how-i-kicked-my-e-mail-compulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Kicked My E-mail Compulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertheaton.com\/2018\/08\/20\/how-i-kicked-my-email-compulsion\/\">Robert Heaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/robertheaton.com\/2018\/08\/20\/how-i-kicked-my-email-compulsion\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been checking my personal emails 3 times a day or less for the last 2 months, and it&rsquo;s had a noticeable effect on my mood, happiness and self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>Your compulsion of choice might be Twitter, Instagram, or Reddit. Whatever it is, you might be a bit happier if you used it a bit less, so here are the habits and thought patterns that helped me with my emails.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Between 2013 and a few months ago, I had an email-hungry gorilla on my back. She was always demanding to know whether any long-lost friends, reporters (it happened once, it could happen again), or well-wishers had gotten in touch during the last few minutes. I also had a vague and mounting sense of wanting to check my emails less. Every time I did open my inbox I felt like I had failed at something, and had given in to my cravings and my gorilla. Whenever I even considered checking my emails I felt a duty to try to resist. Then I either spent some willpower, which we&rsquo;re assuming is a finite resource, or gave in and felt like a gross loser.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Heaton: I&rsquo;ve been checking my personal emails 3 times a day or less for the last 2 months, and it&rsquo;s had a noticeable effect on my mood, happiness and self-esteem. Your compulsion of choice might be Twitter, Instagram, or Reddit. Whatever it is, you might be a bit happier if you used it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-24T20:38:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"959eafc0-69e3-4dc3-b48a-e79330a12491","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-24T20:38:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlZ6vwGnjTcO0iueTMKEkkQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[150,708],"class_list":["post-22553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-email","tag-getting-things-done"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22554,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions\/22554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}