We've talked before, about the difference between correlation and causation, and how the mind not only chucks the whole idea into the bin as ‘not important/too much like school’ but also blurs the boundary between the two, in a way that sets us up to fail.
Most recently we talked about how ‘bad’ feelings get lumped in with what's happening:
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When it looks like BAD STUFF is ‘making us’ FEEL BAD
And a while back, we also looked at the other side of this outside-in coin – when we innocently put our ‘good’ feelings onto something we're doing… which comes with its own particular set of issues:
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GOOD STUFF is great! Until you become dependent on it, to FEEL GOOD.
And today, I want to look at how both of those relate to making productivity a lot easier. Because we all like to Get Stuff Done™ don't we?