Book Titles

Slow Productivity
The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By Cal Newport

Year Published: 2024
ISBN-13: 978-0593544853
Categories: Accomplishment, Burnout, Productivity

57 Quotes Found

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Slow Productivity:

To embrace slow productivity… is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.

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Slow Productivity:

Slow productivity supports legacy-building accomplishments but allow them to unfold at a more human speed.

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Slow Productivity:

Strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare.

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Slow Productivity:

In knowledge work… pushing employees into larger workloads can decrease both the quantity and quality of what they produce.

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Slow Productivity:

In the modern office context, they tend to rely on stress as a default heuristic for moderation.

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Slow Productivity:

…the informal manner in which we manage our workloads ensures we always have dangerously too much to do.

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Slow Productivity:

…overload is not fundamental to knowledge work. It’s instead largely a side effect of the crude ways in which we self-manage our work volume.

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Slow Productivity:

…toiling at maximum capacity greatly reduces the rate at which we accomplish useful things…

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Slow Productivity:

The knowledge sector remains defined by the demands of pseudo-productivity.

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Slow Productivity:

If your professional life is top heavy, you’ll unavoidably face an onerous workload.

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