PRODUCTIVITY

Why You Should Approach Productivity Like a Flawed Human

You can accomplish more when you relax your aim.

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The concept of productivity can be attractive and disparaging at the same time. The definition says it all.

“The quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services.”

With that much potential in a single sentence, how can anything go wrong? You’re setting yourself up to create and become something better, after all. The law of diminishing returns begs to differ. There’s a point where returns begin to diminish, and by returns, I mean your productivity.

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

— William Bruce Cameron

Value in Unquantifiability

That quote, often attributed to Albert Einstein, came from the mind of sociologist William Bruce Cameron. The common belief that things not quantifiable hold no intrinsic value.

That quote in its full context reads as such:

“It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could…