Is it possible to over-communicate? The answer is yes.

Are you guilty of never turning work off? If so, prepare for your creativity to plummet. To remain creative, we need to think about and do other things. Genealogy. Exercise. Knit. Read a good piece of fiction. Host a dinner party. Meditate. Cycle. Go antiquing. Visit a different country. Build a table. Call your mom.

With the flexibility that technology offers today, some people work at odd hours of the day — therefore, we don’t completely agree with Harvard Business Review‘s wholesale hand slap of late-night emails. However, we wholeheartedly agree that focusing all or even 80 percent of our waking hours and attention on work, is a bad, bad idea.

The bottom line is that working all the time makes Johnny a very dull boy.

Want to read what the fine folks at HBR have to say? Click here: https://hbr.org/2015/03/your-late-night-emails-are-hurting-your-team