{"id":8044,"date":"2018-12-13T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2020-09-10T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:26:32","slug":"productivity-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/productivity-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Productivity Guilt? (And How Can You Prevent It?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should really exercise four times per week. Not just jogging though, high-intensity interval training. And do intermittent fasting. And drink two gallons of water a day. Don\u2019t forget to meditate.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not waking up at 4am, you\u2019re missing the most productive hours of the day. Did you watch some television? You could have been using that time for reading books. Not just popular books and novels though. You should be reading classics from Seneca, Aurelius and Laozi.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity guilt is this. It\u2019s the constant nagging feeling that you should be doing more. And if you\u2019re not doing everything, then you\u2019re a lazy slacker who will never reach your goals.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Causes Productivity Guilt?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inline-podcast\">\n<small>Listen to this article<\/small><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/877168441&#038;color=%23219895&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blogs like this one are probably a big contributor to productivity guilt. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this is a side-effect of offering advice and suggestions. For some people, the suggestions will be helpful in solving their problems. For others, they will be too much and just make them feel guilty. It\u2019s hard as a writer to have the former without the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Hardcore advice is inspiring to some. Even easy suggestions can be guilt-inducing for others. There\u2019s no way to only do one without the other.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Prevent the Guilt<\/h2>\n<p>Luckily, you have the power to prevent feeling guilty. There are three steps to help avoid the productivity guilt you may feel:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Accept You\u2019ll Always Be Imperfect.<\/h3>\n<p>That\u2019s okay. Everyone is. Nobody, including me, does everything perfectly all the time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written this blog over thirteen years. There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/articles\/\">over 1200 articles<\/a>, most of which have some kind of advice or suggestion. Combined, that\u2019s way too much for anyone to do simultaneously, permanently.<\/p>\n<p>I go through phases where my habits evolve. Old ideas I wrote about get replaced with new ones. Not always because the new is better than the old, but because I\u2019m always changing (as will you). If you see, instead, that everything I\u2019ve written about is a static and permanent part of who I am, when you sum it all up, you\u2019ll get to something that\u2019s probably unmanageable as a whole.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-001.png\" alt=\"Habits: Appearance vs Reality\" class=\"wp-image-8045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-001.png 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-001-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-001-768x408.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Of course, I trust not everyone sees it this way. This is simply what one might naively expect if they skimmed my 1200+ articles archives&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. You Shouldn\u2019t Be Your Ideal Self.<\/h3>\n<p>The first step is realizing that perfection isn\u2019t practical. The second step is realizing that it isn\u2019t even desirable.<\/p>\n<p>Usually advice is a direction, not a destination. This means that moving from where you are now, in the direction it points, will probably produce benefits. But taking everything to its logical extreme or conclusion often isn\u2019t actually very good.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this can happen by simply stacking a lot of individually good pieces of advice that, if taken too far and too many, can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/advice-reversals\/\">start to have drawbacks<\/a>. Consider the list of common advice at the start of this article. Each piece, on its own, is probably good. But the sum total of them, even if you could execute them, would leave very little time and energy left in the day for mundane but important things.<\/p>\n<p>Other times, the ideal picture can be bad because while a marginal shift in one direction is helpful, a total shift in that direction is not. Spending less time on social media and communication platforms is probably good. But if you had zero contact, that might start to create more social interference than the productivity it generated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-002.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-002.png\" alt=\"Costs versus Benefits of Social Media\" class=\"wp-image-8046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-002-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-002-768x497.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Social media is just a possible example. Many other vices are probably best in moderation&#8211;but moderation is hard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Your Starting Point is Always Here.<\/h3>\n<p>The real source of the guilt, however, isn\u2019t because the standards imposed are too unrealistic or even undesirable, but because there\u2019s always a gap between how we see ourselves and how we would like to be.<\/p>\n<p>The right move to make is always one that pushes you a little, but takes where you are as a starting point. That also includes your psychological strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottHYoung\/status\/1066477994984624130\">Twitter exchange<\/a> with a few people who have been wanting to learn something new, but keep putting it off. You can see the guilt they feel, that they haven\u2019t been able to make progress.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the wrong way to look at it. Yes, it would be nice if we were perfect beings with infinite discipline, time, freedom, resources and intelligence. But we\u2019re not. We\u2019re always starting as flawed people, trying to make things a little better for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The question is never, \u201cWhat should I do, ideally, to solve this problem?\u201d Instead it\u2019s always, \u201cHow could I do things a little differently than last time for a little better results?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-003.png\" alt=\"Don't Compare Your Progress to Others\" class=\"wp-image-8047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-003.png 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-003-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/guilt-003-768x421.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Productivity is Good, Productivity <em>Guilt<\/em> is Bad<\/h3>\n<p>Trying to improve ourselves is a good thing. But too much guilt doesn\u2019t help you do that. If you\u2019ve been feeling a lot of guilt lately, here\u2019s a few things you can do:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pick a few goals to work on (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/irony-of-focus\/\">maybe only one<\/a>) and <strong>tell yourself it\u2019s okay to not work on other things<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop comparing yourself to other people<\/strong>. Those people you admire also have flaws they don\u2019t reveal. Work on improving yourself, not feeling guilty because you don\u2019t see yourself reaching somebody elses standards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Separate the nice-to-have from the essential<\/strong>. Most advice is nice-to-have\u2014it helps, but only a little. If you can focus on the essential things that matter for your few goals, then you can stop feeling guilty about everything else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Most of all, stop telling yourself the guilt is good for you. Guilt does motivate, but it does so at high costs and with a lot of side-effects. You may not choose how you feel, but you can\u2019t possibly adjust it if you think that non-stop guilt about not doing enough is somehow an ideal state. Aim to be slow and patient instead, and you\u2019ll get most of the results with a lot less of the anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should really exercise four times per week. Not just jogging though, high-intensity interval training. And do intermittent fasting. And drink two gallons of water a day. Don\u2019t forget to meditate. If you\u2019re not waking up at 4am, you\u2019re missing the most productive hours of the day. Did you watch some television? 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