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constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.

Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

As Ericsson explains, “Most individuals who start as active professionals… change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level. Beyond this point, however, further improvements appear to be unpredictable and the number of years of work… is a poor predictor of attained performance.” Put another way, if you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better.