How effective is productivity?
Posted by Vincent | Filed under Productivity
We all strive for a more productive life. Productivity is one of the words of the 21st century. But why do we want to reach productivity? Because we finish tasks faster, have more time for more tasks. Sounds logic. Productivity is a good thing, or…
Productivity is way out of your comfort zone
All the productivity tricks and hacks you implement in your daily life don’t feel good. You don’t feel good when you are finishing a task really fast, while you actually want to check some things about the task again. You don’t feel good when you’ve shut down everything and working on an empty word document. You don’t feel good when your life is ruled by lists. And that is probably one of the reasons people don’t do those things. We all want to reach high productivity, but the final step is something we can’t take. We try remember the milk for a while, but we never learn how to use it all the time.
Wanting productivity is in your comfort zone
We all want to reach productivity though. And we like that, we like to test a system for a week and throw it away eventually. Why? Not sure. Probably because we can tell others about what we do with productivity and being familiar with ways to be productive. Maybe so we have the opportunity to be productive anything we want.
Productivity isn’t the solution (always)
Productivity works pretty often, but not always. If you want to get a diploma, productivity can help you, but won’t be the key factor of earning the diploma or not. Passion is. If we are passionate about something, we don’t need fancy tricks for high productivity, we want to work on it all the time than. We are willing to work on a project for a whole night, we don’t need productivity, why finishing something you like as fast as possible. It is a paradox, we want to do a lot with a little time, but we don’t want to work hard. Things are complicated.
I am exactly the same as you guys, I also love productivity, I have never used any productivity system for more than a week, but I have used many for a couple of days. But 2010 is here, and maybe this will actually be the year we start to be productive!
This is a guest post by Stefan Knapen from StudySuccessful.com, a blog about studying successful. Stefan is a med school student from the Netherlands who likes to experiment with study tactics and likes to share his findings to the web!
March 28, 2011 at 7:30 am
Really interesting post on productivity-I’ve never thought of this subject in this way. When I’m more productive, I definitely consider myself to be happier. If, on a Saturday, I only do homework for one class (and I have a billion other things to do), I will generally not be as happy as when I complete more work. I definitely agree with your statement that passion is they key factor to earning a diploma, not productivity. What really matters is that you’re actually interested in something and invest time in it. At my school, I’m in a wellness class where we talk about the different components of wellness, one of which is intellectually related. I have been exploring this dimension of wellness in the hopes of finding the perfect level of productivity for myself. So far, I feel like I’ve definitely improved my productivity in regards to studying/homework. I make lists every day about what I need to accomplish, and after finishing everything on my list, I feel good about myself. So, I think productivity can be a very good thing.