From the course: Free to Focus (Blinkist Summary)
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The concept of productivity
From the course: Free to Focus (Blinkist Summary)
The concept of productivity
- [Narrator] Blink number one, our concept of productivity is flawed. Workdays are filled with an endless litany of tasks. There are meetings to attend, presentations to give, reports to write and projects to complete, but our efforts are seldom enough. Sometimes it feels like we're in a leaky boat, frantically bucketing water over the side, the water builds up and we start to sink. That's the moment we start buying into the myth of productivity. We think if we could work a bit faster, we'd be okay. We start to look for life hacks each promising to give us a few more minutes of time. But obsessing over speed actually decreases our productivity that's because we try to do more with our time and squander any time saved by cramming more things into our overflowing schedules. Finding a quicker way to write our daily emails for instance, just means we'll start preparing tomorrow's emails sooner. In another flawed approach to…
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