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How NOT to Be Productive
Don’t wait until you die!
Here in our duality-based reality life can be like a pendulum swinging back and forth between extremes — both individually and collectively. Here in America, as well as some other countries, the collective pendulum is reaching the most extreme levels of obsessiveness in regard to the notion of productivity. The need to feel productive has taken over our lives.
All one has to do is look at Medium where there are hundreds of thousands of formulaic self-help articles about how to be more productive. These articles are wildly popular because everyone wants to know how to double or triple or quadruple their productivity so that they can feel better about themselves and hopefully someday become a billionaire. In America today we are being taught and conditioned to believe that we cannot feel good about ourselves unless we are being productive every single waking minute of the day.
So, so many of these articles suggest that we wake up an hour or two or three earlier in the morning so that we can squeeze more productivity into our day. After all, we’re not being productive if we’re sleeping, right? We are being conditioned to multi-task. We are constantly thumbing away on our smart phones, even while we watch a movie or eat or commute or socialize — even while we’re shitting.
