How to Be Productive Without Burning Out | Cal Newport & Dan Harris on Ten Percent Happier Podcast

[@tap-a-dat961]

Wish I could fail have enough money to curl up for 3 weeks and watch west wing

[@TenPercentHappier]

Same!

[@weston.weston]

I have followed Cal's work a bunch. I value it a lot and agree with his principles, but it often doesn't jive with the demands of my "real" life. I appreciate Dan's "tough" questions for him because his podcast audience is so obviously upper middle class/privileged, and his messages are rarely, rarely, rarely tailored for people outside of that category.

[@fernandoperezc.7036]

His take on the evolutive treats is great. I’ve found myself being more productive when I narrow my choices and prioritize them and the go after them slowly, like not wanting to do anything but putting all my effort in quality and perfection. I wonder if Cal would associate this behavior to Paretto’s -80/20 rule, 20% is trivial stuff but requires 80% of your effort, whereas you can accomplish 80% of your goals with 20% of your well spent effort-

[@TenPercentHappier]

Thanks for watching!

[@SunshineGrove04]

I wonder what he would say for those who have chronic invisible illnesses who want to be more productive yet struggle ..

[@ethanstump]

Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself. Indeed, an anthropological study of local government in Britain argues that ‘More effort goes into ensuring that a local authority’s services are represented correctly than goes into actually improving those services’. This reversal of priorities is one of the hallmarks of a system which can be characterized without hyperbole as ‘market Stalinism’. What late capitalism repeats from Stalinism is just this valuing of symbols of achievement over actual achievement. -mark fisher

[@ColumbiaEagleMutiny]

Why is this host so obsessed with identity politics and not focusing on the strategies to make people better at work?