Your Obsession With Productivity Is Killing Your Productivity

01/17/25 • 36 min

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In this episode of The Art of Accomplishment, Brett and Joe provide a guide to productivity that challenges the notion of productivity itself. Drawing from personal anecdotes and experience, they explore:

The distinction between working hard and working meaningfully.
How dopamine and cultural norms fuel a false sense of accomplishment.
Practical methods for aligning productivity with personal purpose and enjoyment.
The role of reflection, rest, and pacing in sustainable achievement.

Join Brett and Joe as they illuminate the often-overlooked forest amidst the trees of modern productivity culture, providing tools to reclaim joy and efficiency in your work and life.

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The distinction between working hard and working meaningfully.
How dopamine and cultural norms fuel a false sense of accomplishment.
Practical methods for aligning productivity with personal purpose and enjoyment.
The role of reflection, rest, and pacing in sustainable achievement.

Join Brett and Joe as they illuminate the often-overlooked forest amidst the trees of modern productivity culture, providing tools to reclaim joy and efficiency in your work and life.

Send us your questions on Twitter, through our website, or in our Circle community!

Joe on X: @FU_JoeHudson

Brett on X: @airkistler

AOA on X: @artofaccomp

Visit Us: www.artofaccomplishment.com

We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at www.view.life/explore

Previous Episode

The Secret to Thriving Company Culture

Why do some teams thrive in harmony while others crumble under pressure? How can leaders align aspirations with action, transforming their workplaces—and themselves—into engines of meaningful success?

Brett and Joe recorded a special episode of the podcast in front of a live audience to discuss the impact of workplace culture on decision-making, organizational growth, and personal fulfillment. The conversation dives deep into:

The challenges of fostering connection, accountability, and trust

What matters to people in organizations

The fundamental components of culture

The interplay between leadership and a team

And much more.

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Next Episode

Self-Reliance Is A Trap

Our society glorifies self-reliance. We tell ourselves that it is the only way to survive in a world where no one is coming to save us and armor our hearts and mask our faces to avoid appearing weak or being disappointed when we show that we are in need.

In this episode, Joe and Brett deconstruct the mythology of self-reliance and ask: What does it mean to truly receive? How does our fear of vulnerability keep us from intimacy, from connection, from the radical act of trusting another? They explore the ways self-reliance is both survival and self-sabotage, the ways we must unlearn it in order to heal.

They discuss:

How to heal the fear of needing and being needed.
Why self-reliance is often a misleading ideal.
The hidden fear and control embedded in hyper-independence.
How trauma conditions us to reject support and connection.
The surprising ways leadership and relationships thrive on interdependence.
Practical ways to shift from unhealthy self-reliance to empowered collaboration.

Send us your questions on Twitter, through our website, or in our Circle community!

Joe on X: @FU_JoeHudson

Brett on X: @airkistler

AOA on X: @artofaccomp

Visit Us: www.artofaccomplishment.com

We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at www.view.life/explore