You can read entire books on productivity, dozens of blog posts and implement half a dozen different productivity systems. But at the end of the day, you’d have gotten nothing important done. The truth is, productivity is fairly simple, in theory.
There's something lodged in most of our brains that believes we should be focusing all the time. It believes we should be doing hard, focused work most of the time, and the rest of the time, focused on reading, learning, socializing, exercising, meditating, eating healthy foods. And when we're not focusing on one of these kinds of things, we feel guilty because we believe we should be.
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