I think the current internet outlook on “productivity” is focused on how to spend more time working. This is embodied by the popularity of videos titled something like “How to study for 10 hours at a time”.
Yet, this is not really productivity. This is workaholism. The valuing of spending more time working.
Really, productivity is about being efficient so that you can spend less time working, and more time unconcerned with “management” and more time living authentically.
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