Our writers’ most useful insights on getting issues achieved with out stressing about them an excessive amount of.
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“Productiveness is a sore topic for lots of people,” my colleague Amanda Mull wrote final fall—and I’ll admit that simply studying that line makes me really feel a bit of burdened. Maybe it’s as a result of, as Amanda places it, “Individuals make investments private productiveness with ethical weight, as if human value might be divined via cautious examination of labor product, each skilled and private.”
Right now’s studying checklist is an try to ponder productiveness with out experiencing the accompanying anxiousness. I’ve rounded up a few of our writers’ most useful insights on getting issues achieved and conceptualizing productiveness’s function in your life.
On Getting Issues Executed
The Solely Productiveness Hack That Works on Me
By Amanda Mull
By no means underestimate the facility of a to-do checklist.
Schopenhauer’s Recommendation on How you can Obtain Nice Issues
By Arthur C. Brooks
Do you may have an necessary mission in thoughts? The Nineteenth-century thinker’s method continues to be well timed at present.
By Olga Khazan
Three feelings are the key to getting issues achieved. (From 2018)
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
I’ll depart you with this beautiful essay by Sheon Han in regards to the Korean time period that helps him reconcile moments of self-discipline and sloth.
— Isabel
