Self-Help
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
2024·244 pages
Cal Newport redefines productivity with a slower, sustainable approach, drawing on historical figures to combat modern burnout.
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Cal Newport redefines productivity with a slower, sustainable approach, drawing on historical figures to combat modern burnout.
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Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?
Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers...
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