Competing with ourselves
We all know the statement - compete only with yourself. In this concept we do it the best.
If you did better than yesterday - great, you "raised" the level of productivity(nr of things done in an unit of time), now try to keep up with this level for a long time)
And if you didn't - you're a piece of crap, and you lose all your motivation to work(
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I realised myself trapped in this productivity cult. I got burnt out because of schedules and frames I set to myself. Now I want to start a new program according to the last idea and maintain it as long as I can.
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