
#61: Your productivity standards are like a 1980s fad diet
The Academic Imperfectionist
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How to Cancel Productivity Anxiety
If you feel like procrastinating, do it. Knock yourself out. You have my permission. There's just one condition. Be curious about what you're doing. Ask yourself as you carefully remove the hair that's wound round the workings on the underside of your vacuum cleaner or unnecessarily scrutinise your childhood home on Street View. What benefit is this activity bringing me? Be genuinely curious to find the answer to this question and to understand your current behaviour as part of who you are. Perhaps the answer is that you're feeling anxious, and sowhat you're doing is a form of self-soothing. Or maybe you just don't know where to start with a task you're meant to
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