Meta point: Reading this article was productivity porn.
Productivity porn
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#13Where's the line? Watching self-help content is described in the article as productivity porn. What about reading a self-help book? A (let's say good quality) non-fiction book? A scientific paper? A text book? Taking a class? Working on a project that is likely to fail? Writing code? Writing an article? Writing a book?
> When I look for solutions to this problem I only come up with half-baked ideas and more questions.
It sounds like the author's talking about science.
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#14I recently read The Focal Point and The One Thing. While these are tangentially related to productivity porn, they finally allowed me to let go of optimizing my work methods and focus on the one or two important things every day/week/month/year/lifetime.
Stress levels: plummeting.
Output (& happiness) much, much higher, far more than 10x before
Optimized work methods: I now print out a very short to-do list for each business I work in. A literal printout from Notepad or Apple Notes.
"Productivity": trending towards zero
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#15It's the lesser of 2 evils. At least I'm learning when I'm consuming content that surrounds my work/lifestyle goals rather than just mindlessly scrolling through content that doesn't help me at all.
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#16I wonder if people with (adult) ADD are more susceptible to this. Same as the author, I would like to hear the story of someone breaking the cycle for good.
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#17You've discovered the motivational industrial complex. I think this nicely sums up the content of many magazines.
I was disheartened when I read about all these successful people and their lofty advice. I was more disheartened when I realized their advice is just the random stuff they happened to do that on their path to success, and that equivalent advice of the myriad failures that complement them would never be heard (and that both were of approximately equal value). Despite how in the overmind the notion of "correlation is n…
I like to read self-help. I think it can actually change your life.
The problem is finding actual good self-help. Most stuff is garbage or dives too deep into a specific topic.
One of my favorite authors is Orison Swett Marden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden) who writes well-rounded self-help and founded a magazine ironically called "Success". There's also Samuel Smiles who wrote the original title called "Self-Help".
If you go back in time far enough, you will come to the conclusion that most self-help stems back to certain influences at the time. You can go as far back as to the tao te ching, meditations, or even the bible. Not much of this stuff changes, but is repackaged with modern examples of successful people into bestsellers.
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#18Meta point: Reading this article was productivity porn.
> Meta point
Meta porn
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#19I recently read The Focal Point and The One Thing. While these are tangentially related to productivity porn, they finally allowed me to let go of optimizing my work methods and focus on the one or two important things every day/week/month/year/lifetime. Stress levels: plummeting. Output (& happiness) much, much higher, far more than 10x before Optimized work methods: I now print out a very short to-do list for each…
Have these books on my list. I feel you would recommend them?
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#20Meta point: Reading this article was productivity porn.
Only if you don’t follow its advice!