Want to Become Happy? Stop Trying to Be Productive All the Time.
Burnout is not the price you have to pay for success
I recently wrote a piece on panic attacks in my Russian blog. It became viral, so I decided to talk more about it here.
In that post, I wrote that I was trying hard to be the super-duper productive machine just about a year ago. I exhausted myself with work, meetings, 10 projects at the same time and lived by the motto of, ‘The more — the better’.
At some point, I broke down. My body couldn’t take it any longer and it revolted against my strict brain with a series of severe panic attacks.
After a few months of psychotherapy and reassessment of what really matters in my life, I realize something important that I want to share with the world.
Trying to be more productive all the time is toxic. It makes you constantly feel stressful, undervalued, under-accomplished and generally, not enough.
But the most important part is that it’s not healthy.
You work so much because you think you’re inherently flawed.
This is something I took a long time to come to terms with, but it’s true. We overwork ourselves because we think that we are made to…
