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Don’t let anger infiltrate your outbox. BY JULIA GLUM

HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED AN EMAIL you loathe from the OPEN UP A NEW GO CRAZY
instant it appears in your inbox? You know the DOCUMENT IN A Write the response you’re
type—a coworker’s excuse for missing a deadline, a VERY SAFE PLACE itching to, complete with all
manager’s rejection of your pet project, or a passive- In order for this to work, you the things you know you
aggressive “Best” from someone who definitely does not need to be far, far away from shouldn’t actually say out
wish you the best? your inbox. Dudley says he loud. Lambaste the HR rep for
Drew Dudley has, and he has the solution. personally keeps a separate dodging your previous emails;
A motivational speaker known for a viral TED Talk, folder on a password-protected call your colleague out for not
Dudley recently published the book This Is Day One: flash drive for the purpose of pulling his weight. Don’t
A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters. In it, the letting emotions flow“without worry about censoring your-
41-year-old Canadian lays out his method of “elevating actually having a target.” self; let your feelings fly. MINIATURE—GETTY IMAG ES; LIGHT BU LB: MOCHIPET—GETTY IMAG ES
emails,” or replying to pesky messages in a leadership- “The idea is to lose it but “It feels good, full stop,
savvy way. He says your emails should strive to elevate or to lose it in the right direc- to hear yourself screaming EMOJIS: FIM.DESIGN—SHUTTERSTOCK; ENVELOPES:
move the conversation forward, as opposed to escalate tion,” he says. in your head as you write it
matters, which could hurt everyone involved—and his So go ahead and start a out furiously,” Dudley says.
method could save you from getting a ding on your Word file—an email in your “When you write stuff that
permanent work record. drafts folder is too risky—and makes you angry, you
The next time an email comes in that makes you want summon your rage. Then pro- can type 15 more words
to boil over, use this technique. ceed to Step 2. per minute.”

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