We often impose an unhealthy expectation on ourselves to respond to every email immediately.
Except for work assignments, this is unnecessary. Many people will applaud you for taking a break and find your decision inspiring.

According to a 2018 survey, the average creative professional spends 5.6 hours per day checking email.

There are so many things funneling back to email.

Most emails are of little value. We often remember the extraordinary, like the once-in-a-lifetime invitation, but not the ordinary - that possibly only three percent of emails are worth reading.

The email experiment works as follows:

We expect information to come to us, rather than proactively seeking it out.