Why Inbox Zero Can Feel Impossible to Reach (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Are you an inbox zero person, or 4,000 emails in your inbox and proud of it?

[00:00:07] Speaker 2: I don't think I'm proud of it, honestly. I used to probably be proud of it, but I probably have hundreds and hundreds of unread emails. But luckily, with the labels, I can just see what's important, and the rest, I'm like, I'll figure it out.

[00:00:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, I aspire to be an email zero, inbox zero person. I fear that that's not for us in this lifetime. What's the worst your own inbox has ever been?

[00:00:32] Speaker 2: I think probably somewhere like upwards of 10,000 unread emails.

[00:00:36] Speaker 1: 10,000? I thought I was...

[00:00:39] Speaker 2: At the time, there was nothing like email assistant to help you out with it. So just like I was not going to deal with it, and I was going to procrastinate it till I died.

[00:00:47] Speaker 1: 10,000 is crazy, though. That's a wild one.