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196. My toxic relationship with productivity

2024/5/17
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主持人分享了近期患扁桃体炎的经历,以及由此引发的对自身与生产力之间“毒性关系”的反思。她意识到,即使在生病期间,她也无法停止工作,并将自我价值完全与工作成果挂钩。这种“毒性生产力”不仅体现在工作中,也延伸到社交生活中,她将社交活动也视为一项任务,需要被规划和完成。主持人分析了这种现象的根源,认为这与童年时期受到的教育和社会文化对“忙碌”的推崇有关。她从小就被夸赞为勤奋、优秀的学生,因此将自身价值与工作成果紧密联系在一起。这种观念让她难以停下来休息,即使身体不适也无法给自己喘息的机会。她还谈到了心理学中的“蔡加尼克效应”,即未完成的任务会让人难以放下,这进一步加剧了她对生产力的焦虑。为了改善这种情况,主持人计划调整自己的工作方式,专注于每天完成少量高质量的任务,而不是追求数量;同时,她也要学习在完成任务后及时结束工作,避免陷入“永无止境的待办事项”循环中。最后,主持人还分享了其他一些生活更新,包括搬到新住所独自居住的经历,以及与男友一年纪念日的庆祝。

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In today's episode we're going old school, back to a good old fashioned chatty sit down episode and life update. I have been recovering from a pretty terrible bout of tonsilitis and it's made me realise...I have a toxic relationship with productivity. Even when I'm sick I can't slow down, and I don't think I'm alone. 

We also discuss how I'm finding living alone, a little relationship update and how it feels to have finished my book! All that and more, listen now! 

 

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