How Productivity Olympics Sabotages Your Sanity (Do This Instead)
4 min readFeb 28, 2024
Remember that feeling in elementary school when the teacher handed out those giant reward charts with enough stickers to fuel a unicorn stampede?
That was my entire adult life, except instead of gold stars, I craved the validation of crossing things off an ever-growing to-do list. I even tried to convince myself that my ADHD was some productivity…