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Fauxductivity: 8 Ways You Trick Yourself into Feeling Productive - Nat Eliason

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In many cases, the key to getting more done is simply a matter of removing these fauxductive habits, or significantly reducing the time we spend on them.

Fauxductivity: 8 Ways You Trick Yourself into Feeling Productive June 14, 2016 When I was working in marketing, I had a habit that surprised my peers: I didn’t read any marketing blogs. I had no feed set up to track the new articles being put out by my peers. Instead, I went out of my way to ignore them, and whenever one of someone would ask “hey what did you think about that article that X posted?” my response was usually “what article?” What I knew then, and believe even stronger now, is that there are a vast number of things that you and I do that make us feel productive, but that barely mo

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