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What's the point of being productive without meaning and fulfillment?
The boss would prefer you don’t ask such pesky questions.
The boss doesn't care if you're productive, he just wants you to be busy.
What's next for personal productivity
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#22Not reading meandering meta articles about productivity makes me more productive.
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#23I think this article misunderstands what productivity is and is trying to achieve. Productivity is about achieving your goals with as little waste as possible, and getting things done. It's not about deciding what those goals are. That's not a slight on productivity, it's just what the word means. This article isn't talking about productivity, it's talking about meaning & fulfilment. But the idea that deciding what y…
What's the point of being productive without meaning and fulfillment?
meaningfulness is for yourself. Productivity is for other people asking you to achieve a goal (and you measure this productivity with money earned).
You could be doing meaningful stuff for yourself, like a starving artist. It is not productive, if other people do not pay you for your art work.
You could be doing very productive work, but not meaningful (for yourself).
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#24Not reading meandering meta articles about productivity makes me more productive.
What about commenting on them?
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#25GTD has various "heights" of reviews for your week, your goals, your "someday maybe" projects, etc. Failing to perform these higher level reviews keeps you in the weeds.
I try GTD every few years and eventually abandon it because it's not a habit of mine. But just as importantly as habit/discipline is the belief that you do actually have control over your life/you can do better for yourself.
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#26https://elenasalaks.medium.com/i-just-dont-want-to-be-busy-a...
Exactly what I thought of reading this. The idea of "productivity" doesn't even make sense. People don't want to be productive, people want to be happy.
You cannot be happy all the time, contentment and peace is what we all can achieve, spiced with happiness here and there.
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#29Doing the work that everyone is telling us that they're doing, but they're actually not? They're just writing, "hacking", sharing about it...
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#30I do not know what the author means by productivity. On the surface there is a structure in the thought achieved by versioning the term, but beyond that there is just the chaos of ideas. And I am not sold on redefining the words, please invent new ones if you really have to.