Today, I’m not going to show you how to 10x your productivity or 5x your reading speed while increasing your retention 14.7-fold. I’m not going to show you how to get 3x more done before most people make it to the bathroom in the morning or why getting up at o-dark 30 is the best way to succeed.
Truth is. I don’t have it figured out. Not even close. I got distracted by email 3 times while writing this little article.
Personal belief here: I also don’t believe most people who write about productivity have it figured out. There’s an old tongue-in-cheek saying (that I’m reticent to share because my father and father-in-law are both retired educators):
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
In most contexts, I don’t believe that at all. My dad, for example, is an excellent doer and teacher. He devoted more than 30 years of his life to teaching kids with special needs. It’s one of the things I admire most about him: his absolute selfless devotion to all those kids he helped.
However, in the case of all the ludicrous productivity hacks out there, I’m a believer that many (not all) write about it because so many of us (myself included) are willing to drink the daily Kool-Aid. Period.
Even the idea of 1% improvement is impractical and unsustainable. First off, it’s essentially impossible…
