You get one email. That's all. A single line on a screen. Nothing has actually happened yet. No one has raised their voice. Nothing has changed in the room around you. But by lunchtime, you are wiped out, flat; like you've run a marathon in your mind. So what drained you? It wasn't the email. It was everything you did with it after. The Story Your Mind Builds Here is what really happens. The email lands, and your mind gets to work. It replays the words. It writes the worst en