Why Productivity Is a Myth
Being productive appears to be the focal point of most of our lives these days. Every day we’re thinking about how much we can get done, trying to discover new ways to enhance our levels of productivity, and beating ourselves up if we didn’t accomplish what we originally sought out to during our day.
The fact is that we rarely, if ever, actually do everything we want to do in a day, because, besides a very tiny minority who seem to be freaks of nature, we’re all pretty bad at being ‘productive’.
I have a strongly held view that the concept of productivity, and our society’s obsession with it, is a trap, a scam, a situation from which you rarely ever benefit.
What is productivity?
What does it even mean to be productive?
Does it mean how many tasks you can tick off in the fastest amount of time? Or how much knowledge you can stuff into your brain per day? Or maybe you’d judge it by how much money you’ve made in x amount of time…
This is the point, it is terribly difficult to define, and we often have a very narrow view of what productivity is for us. We set ourselves very rigid goals, and if we stray from these, we feel as though we are not being productive. When we look at this through another lens however, we are actually being pretty productive.
