Decades of Wrong Beliefs
Productivity requires continuous output, while creativity is a non-linear, messy, disjointed process that needs to be unstructured.
We have decades of exposure to historical and cultural beliefs on how work should be and what it means to be successful, so it is hard for us to understand creativity.
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