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“8 Things Other Than Your Productivity to Base Your Worth On:
-Hair shininess
-Easily calculating a 20 percent tip
-Compliments from others about your productivity
-Attention span (ability to watch seven-plus hours of television without drinking water)
-That time you made salmon
-The innate sanctity of being a living being (lol kidding)
-All those times you didn't make the salmon (saving the salmon)
-Your ability to look at a big jar full of jelly beans and accurately guess how many jelly beans are in there”
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
-Hair shininess
-Easily calculating a 20 percent tip
-Compliments from others about your productivity
-Attention span (ability to watch seven-plus hours of television without drinking water)
-That time you made salmon
-The innate sanctity of being a living being (lol kidding)
-All those times you didn't make the salmon (saving the salmon)
-Your ability to look at a big jar full of jelly beans and accurately guess how many jelly beans are in there”
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
“In my stressful 9-to-5, it was hard to find time for peace. Often, I would become so frustrated I would send messages to colleagues like, 'I am confused as to why you did not notify me sooner of your urgent doctor's appointment' or 'Please let me know as soon as you can why you didn't turn in your assignment when it was due two minutes ago.'
I tried to be kind to them despite their poor performance. For example, I would let them out of work a full five minutes early, or bring in a tray of cookies, then stand next to the cookies the whole time to make sure no one took more than one (but also no less than one; allergies aren't an excuse to not be a team player!).”
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
I tried to be kind to them despite their poor performance. For example, I would let them out of work a full five minutes early, or bring in a tray of cookies, then stand next to the cookies the whole time to make sure no one took more than one (but also no less than one; allergies aren't an excuse to not be a team player!).”
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
“Thousands of years ago, humanity worked exactly enough to have shelter, eat, and stay warm. Everything was literally perfect and there were no problems plaguing society. But then, someone else decided if they just work a little harder, they could maybe kill an extra giant rodent/dinosaur and take the rest of the day off, while the sucker family in the cave next door toiled on picking nuts and berries. The system learned to exploit our desires to have some additional security by making it less and less achievable with every generation - at some point, it went from something that was kind of true to an outright myth, like the idea of American exceptionalism, or that Avril Lavigne died in 2006 and was replaced by an impostor: it’s really more of a feeling than a fact.”
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
― How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You
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