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One Of The Most Clever Life Hacks I’ve Ever LEanred
It’ll surprise you
Stop masturbating
Hear me out for a second…
The most clever life hack I ever learned was to stop intellectually masturbating to pornographic notions of ideas.
We all have a tendency to turn potentially good ideas and values into ways we can mentally jerk off.
Self-improvement can quickly become — as the Fight Club character Tyler Durden said — masturbation.
Be careful separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to thoughts on improving your life.
Productivity Porn
Take productivity for example. Being more productive is beneficial in your life for many reasons. You get more done, it can increase your creativity and your self-image changes when you accomplish a lot.
On the other hand, productivity can quickly turn into productivity porn. This is what happens when you see someone who uses 47 different productivity apps — Evernote, Trello, Slack — and has a meticulously crafted multi-colored calendar, filled up to the point where it looks like someone ate every kind of Popsicle from an ice cream truck and then vomited on the calendar. Productivity porn is when you “track steps” on your fit bit instead of just…
