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What Writing A Book About Productivity Taught Me ✍️

2024-04-17 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:43 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Reflection and life update · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, His own products discussed, Evidence-based framing

In a Short, Ali says the research for his book Feel-Good Productivity, mostly from positive psychology, showed him that feeling good is a good in itself: the goal is not to get more done but to be more satisfied with life, and the shortcut is to be happier now and let productivity come along for the ride or not.

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00:00:00 — What researching a book on productivity taught him: be happier now, productivity can come along for the ride

  • ★★ Ali says most of the research in his book Feel-Good Productivity comes from positive psychology rather than from organisational performance design. — 00:00:00 · Feel-Good Productivity (book)
  • ★★ Researching Feel-Good Productivity, Ali found that he is more productive when he feels good, but also simply happier and more satisfied with life, and that feeling good is an inherent good. — 00:00:00 · Feel-Good Productivity (book)

  • ★★★ Ali says the goal of productivity is not actually to get more done but to be more satisfied and fulfilled with life. — 00:00:00 · feel-good productivity (concept)

    “So the goal is not actually to get more done.”

  • ★★ Ali thinks people want to be more productive because they presume that on the other side of it lies a life they will enjoy more. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Ali calls being happier in the moment a shortcut to the more enjoyable life people hope productivity will bring: do the things that maximise happiness now, and productivity can come along for the ride or not. — 00:00:29

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Central: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

Also: positive psychology

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