What Maximum Productivity Looks Like for Me

If I sternly tell myself to do something, I will refuse myself within a few days. This has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that I spent a lot of time flaking out of jobs, not doing particularly well at school, and, generally, underachieving. The advantage is that, through spontaneously following my excitement, I’ve gradually shift... See more

when I am most productive and happy, my days look nothing like what I’ve heard a productive person’s do. Meanwhile, when I’m trying to be a productive person, like, trying to assume the normal trappings of productivity, I don’t get anything done.

Productivity, for me, is a natural outgrowth of passion. If I need to think about “productivity” as a separate discipline from “doing the thing,” something has gone wrong.