Beware Pseudo Productivity

Productivity advice is limitless. Books, courses, blogs, and podcasts by the thousand. They have enormous amounts of useful guidance. 

But they can become a hidden trap.

We are bathed in a culture of information. Your most valuable skill is wading through the wordy muck and finding actionable ideas.

As obvious as it may seem, the goal of productivity is not consuming more productivity content. You live a life of pseudo-productivity when you spend more time learning about how to be productive than actually producing things. 

You might disregard items that just seem too basic: making your bed in the morning or not looking at your phone before bed. Until you realize you don’t even do those things.

The most productive people in the world think less about productivity than you do. 

The best self-help is a simple idea to understand and incredibly difficult to embody. 

Extract the idea. If it’s good, implement it. Then get back to producing.