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PRODUCTIVITY

5 Things Productive People Never Do

Productivity is about doing less, rather than doing more.

Mikhail Raevskiy

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Photo by Andreas Klassen on Unsplash

Do you do all the things time-management gurus tell you to but still end up less productive than you thought you would? There are several secrets that not everyone will tell you about. I will touch on 4 of the ones that stood out to me.

After an immense amount of research on the world’s most productive people, it becomes evident that they define productivity differently. It’s not about doing more, not about stuffing your schedule to the brim, not about getting more things done. If you follow this definition of productivity as many people do, as did I, you’ll end up running like a headless chicken in your personal race to integrate new habits, get every planned dead done.

In reality, productivity is about doing less rather than doing more. It all comes down to what you DON’T DO.

In my research of the incredibly productive and successful, I noticed several patterns. Here are the five things that all these people DON’T DO:

1️⃣ They never stop learning

After their formal education, these successful individuals keep absorbing knowledge throughout their entire lives. In contrast, the vast majority of…

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