Is a response within 24 hours acceptable?<\/p>\n
It used to be a response within 24 hours is good enough to any email<\/p>\n
With the rise of social media platforms and instant messaging, it is expected to be responsive all the time<\/p>\n
Some people pride on their capability to respond within few hours any time of the day (night)<\/p>\n
This habit can be detrimental to ‘Deep thinking’, which is what essentially we are paid to do<\/p>\n
A human brain can focus only on one thing at a time in order to ‘think deep’<\/p>\n
Also there is a switching cost from one task to the other. It’s not like flipping a switch<\/p>\n
Going back and forth between different things can make you feel more exhausted<\/p>\n
And ‘reduce’ your productivity since you’d not be able to hit the ‘deep thinking’ zone on 2x to 10x your mental capacity<\/p>\n
I feel a ‘within’ 24 hours response from a ‘select few’ contacts on important conversations<\/p>\n
And an ‘whenever possible’ response on communication from other contacts and non-important topics should be the expectation<\/p>\n
Try spending more time daily thinking deep and less switching and doing shallow stuff<\/p>\n
Lessons from “Deep Work” – Cal Newport<\/p>\n<\/div>