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How productivity culture kills simple pleasures

I started a jigsaw puzzle three weeks ago and every time I sit down to work on it I immediately think of twelve other things I should be doing instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You have internalized the belief that any moment not spent optimizing is a moment wasted.

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