Does productivity need to be painful?🤔

2024-03-20 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Answering questions · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis

Asked where the myth that productivity is measured by pain comes from, Ali traces it to the Protestant work ethic, which tied hard work and toil to moral worth, and says the attitude survives, especially in the US, where saying you are busy and stressed signals that you do a lot.

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00:00:00 — Where the myth that productivity is measured by pain comes from

• ★★★ Ali says the myth that work has to be painful probably stems from the Protestant work ethic, a movement in the UK and the US that held you get closer to God through hard work and toil, so the harder you work, the more moral you are. (hedged) — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali says the attitude that hard work makes you a moral actor has continued, especially in the US, to the point where answering "I'm busy, I'm stressed" signals that you must be doing a lot. — 00:00:00

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• refine · Should productivity be about efficiency or about enjoying the work? — Ali says the myth that work has to be painful probably stems from the Protestant work ethic, a movement in the UK and the US that held you get closer to God through hard work and toil, so the harder you work, the more moral you are. (00:00:00)

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Central: Protestant work ethic

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