I'm starting to think productivity is a scam
I'm trying to convince myself it's okay to rest... T oday I wrote two entries for a project that I’ve been really looking forward to and now I’m exhausted. Of course I’m very happy that I got it done, but now I’m sure that I haven’t done enough. Does anyone else feel like that? Like, you set a goal and you get it done and then suddenly you totally forget you promised yourself that you’d be content when you finished those things and then you’re all disappointed that you didn’t get anything extra done. I read a passage in Ecclesiastes today and, lemme tell yeah, Solomon was going through it. But he makes some interesting points regarding progress. Of course, you obviously have to look at his words in context of his depression and understand that much of it was a lament, but it’s kind of interesting to see one of the most widely accepted images of success lamenting that success meant nothing. He was rich, powerful, creative, and productive, and at the end of the day he lit
