Posts on LinkedIn about increasing your productivity get thousands of likes, comments, and shares.
They are often accompanied by incredibly busy infographics that cram in multiple stats and frameworks as if this makes the content more interesting, important, or valuable.
Words like “crush” and “efficiency” are liberally used.
Words like these stress me out.
I see posts like this and want to throw up.
10x my productivity?
For what end?
Seriously.
I don't want to 10x my productivity
What would increasing my productivity by a factor of ten gain me?
What is it gaining those who say they are doing all the things on the list?
They never share specific details. Only vague references to “my life changed” and “this made a difference.”
In what ways, I want to ask?
Can you please elaborate in exquisite details the ways 10xing your productivity has changed your life?
Spare no expense.
Don't just tell us you've changed.
Let us see it happening in real time.
This point of view will probably be unpopular and I don’t care.
I’m so over this hyped up, hustle at all costs message that’s been held up for too long as the holy grail of success.
And is leaving countless roadkill in its wake.
Why these posts are as popular as they are makes me wonder what’s going on in the minds of those who like and comment on them.
Is that part of the 10x productivity formula, too?
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