Tired of Being Productive All the Time? Me too.

Let’s all slow down and see what happens

Photo by Karen Lau on Unsplash

Let’s face it: we are obsessed. And we are obsessed for a good reason.

We are constantly bombarded with messages from social media, self-help and opinion leaders, telling us what we should do. We are kicked in balls with jealousy when we see on Instagram that our friends are more seemingly more successful than we are.

And when we hear about somebody working 14 hour days, we secretly blame ourselves for working only 5. We can’t sit for 10–15 minutes straight and not think up of something else to do.

We are productivity addicts, and we need a rehab, now.

We live in the world we don’t understand

It’s true. The fast pace of technological and social change, as well as the accelerated growth of the planet’s population and the following jump in consumption created a world that is not suited for humans.

We are not made to be functioning at this pace.

The humans exist for about 200,000 years. And for 99.5% of that time, our lives went slowly. Really slowly.

The amount of information you consume in a given day is equal to what an average…