A new study in the UK, commissioned by Hewlett Packard, finds that constantly checking emails lowers your IQ more than smoking pot. I knew it! I’ve railed against the evils of email a lot on this blog.
“This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,” Wilson said. “We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness.
I have said basically the same thing when people are consumed by email. Some spend their entire day with Outlook open and they stare at it…waiting for the new email to pop up…or they dive for the Blackberry when it buzzes. These people are destroying their brains.
