Why Most Productivity Advice Doesn’t Stick — It Fails to Acknowledge Mental Health
Here’s how to consider productivity in a different light
Each person is different. And so are their goals, fitness, and income levels.
Yet, most productivity advice doesn’t even acknowledge these differences. They provide the same run-of-the-mill advice to everyone — create a morning routine, focus on the most important tasks in the day, use the 80/20 rule, and so on.
I want to gouge my eyes out the next time I read something like this. Don’t get me wrong — I have nothing against it. I have written about productivity myself. But I have realized that what we preach and what we practice is very different. So I did a little experiment — I followed a few of these productivity tricks, and I observed myself each time I failed to keep up with the habit. I made a list of those observations, did my research on this topic to understand the psychology behind it, and here’s what I found out.
Productivity advice doesn’t stick because it doesn’t always address the real issues the person is dealing with. There is an underlying assumption that people are lazy or they don’t know how to manage time. Neither of them is true.
