Self-Worth: Why is our worth so tied to productivity and money?

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08/26/24 • 67 min

Welcome back to This Will Get Messy.
Roberto is readjusting to manual driving back home whilst Mars reminisces about driving in Jeju Korea, but mostly they’re just celebrating that their podcast baby has officially gone live!
Today Mars is centring the conversation around the way we’ve been socialised to tie our sense of worth to productivity and making money. We’ve all procrastinated and know how crap it can feel. Tune in as your hosts talk feeling good when busy and bad when idle, hustle culture, investing in yourself and time off, and defining your own success to emancipate from the demands of productivity.

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