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How productivity culture corrupts joyful longevity practices

My 95-year-old piano teacher says music kept her young, but when I try to practice regularly it feels like another self-improvement task rather than the joyful expression that seems to sustain her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Modern achievement-oriented thinking is preventing you from accessing the spontaneous joy that makes creative practices genuinely life-enhancing.

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