Everything You Think You Know About Being More Productive Is Probably Wrong
There’s an endless amount of advice out there that claims becoming more productive means fully buying into hustle culture. But this week, clinical psychologist turned writer Alice Boyes joins the podcast to tear down many of the acknowledged notions we have about productivity, efficiency, and mental health.
Alice is the author of Stress-Free Productivity: A Personalized Toolkit to Become Your Most Efficient and Creative Self, which helps readers identify their productivity profile and gives them the framework to create their most effective and efficient self.
On the pod, Alice talks about the value of productivity highs and what habits to cultivate for a more stress-free sense of productivity. Conversely, Alice talks about what mindsets weigh us down and can reduce productivity, including the long-held ideals of peak efficiency.
Great quotes:
[8:10 - 8:26] “It really is your productivity highs that matter and not your productivity lows. So we spend a lot of time criticizing ourselves for the lows, but it doesn’t matter if you have ten ideas and don’t follow through on eight of them. It matters if you follow through on two of them.”
[26:05 - 26:22] “So there’s this concept called psychological fixability and basically it shows that people who are happier and healthier and more successful at work -- they don’t try to eliminate or reduce negative emotions. They use their negative emotions to fuel their dedication to their goals.”
[33:35 - 33:58] “Anything that creates urgency -- you want to eliminate that because it can really disrupt your routines of whatever good habits that you have. But in a lot of ways, being efficient causes you to become more busy. So if you write more emails, you will get more responses.”
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