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#productivity #remote-work #mental-health #work-life-balance #leadership #entrepreneurship #burnout #hybrid-work
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Startup companies
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the people who find lasting success in business aren't the ones who mastered the habits productivity culture celebrates - they've quietly figured out that most of what business media treats as essential is noise, and the actual signal is found in a much smaller set of decisions most people overlook - Silicon Canals
Sustainable business success comes from focusing on key decisions rather than following productivity trends and hacks.
#productivity
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe real enemy of high performance isn't laziness, it's low-grade busyness - Silicon Canals
Busy work does not equate to productivity; actual output declines significantly after working over fifty hours a week.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI let AI plan my workdays down to the minute for a week - the shock wasn't my output, it was realizing how much of my old schedule had been performance - Silicon Canals
Using ChatGPT to manage a calendar revealed that much of the scheduled time was performance rather than productive work.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI let AI plan my workdays down to the minute for a week - the shock wasn't my output, it was realizing how much of my old schedule had been performance - Silicon Canals
Using ChatGPT to manage a calendar revealed that much of the scheduled time was performance rather than productive work.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 hours agoSome people aren't the planner in every friend group because they like control. They became the planner because they noticed, early and painfully, that when they didn't initiate, nobody did, and being forgotten felt worse than doing all the work - Silicon Canals
Chronic planners often act out of a fear of being forgotten rather than a desire for control or dominance.
#burnout
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe people most frequently mistaken for lazy aren't the ones who never worked hard - they're the ones who worked so hard for so long without acknowledgment or recovery that their system shut down the way any system shuts down when it's been running past its limit and nobody thought to check the gauge - Silicon Canals
Laziness is often a misconception; many labeled as lazy are actually experiencing burnout from chronic overwork and stress.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe workers most likely to burn out aren't always the ones doing the most - they're the ones who can't tell the difference between urgent and important - Silicon Canals
Workers overwhelmed by urgency rather than importance are more likely to experience burnout.
#communication
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoNot everyone who answers texts slowly is bad at communication. Some of them are just people who learned that responding quickly taught others to expect a level of availability they could no longer sustain without resentment. - Silicon Canals
Slow texters often prioritize boundaries over immediate responses, having learned that quick replies create expectations of constant availability.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThere's a specific kind of tiredness that belongs to people who are the default contact for every family emergency. It isn't the emergencies themselves. It's the low-grade readiness that never switches off, the phone always near, the nervous system perpetually on call for a shift that never formally ends - Silicon Canals
Being an emergency contact involves a constant state of anticipation and stress that affects overall well-being, not just during crises.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoNot everyone who keeps working after the workday ends is ambitious. Some people simply discovered that the transition from productivity to stillness requires passing through a stretch of feeling they've been avoiding for years, and the extra hour of work is cheaper than the ten minutes of silence. - Silicon Canals
Many work late to avoid confronting uncomfortable emotions, not just to be productive.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
19 hours agoPsychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren't just building habits - they're constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline - Silicon Canals
Self-discipline is shaped by accumulated evidence of personal commitments rather than mere willpower.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the people with the most genuine discipline in their lives don't look anything like the productivity culture tells you to look - they're not waking at 5am or tracking every minute, they've built a quieter kind of discipline that most people miss because it doesn't perform itself - Silicon Canals
Discipline is often misrepresented; true discipline is quieter and more effective than the rigid routines promoted by productivity culture.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months agoMy Job's Infuriating Rule Is Keeping Me From Being Twice as Productive
The union is great, don't get me wrong, but one side effect of having it is that there are massive, sometimes arbitrary and annoyingly vague, lines around what I can and cannot do in my role. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, if most of the time the things I'm not allowed to do are required to be done by managers. Managers who are overworked, undertrained, and underpaid, and so don't have the time or brain space to address things I bring to them.
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