In this episode I continue to fight against traditional productivity advice which assumes that people need to be disciplined to be successful... uh. huh.

I ask if we approach productivity from a point of being in service to oneself, the idea of "disciplining yourself" doesn't make 100% sense 🤔

I also poke at the idea of "perfect productivity" which obviously doesn't exist because it really can't be static and is affected by many variables, which cannot be solved by discipline alone!

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Research Links:

• A Meta-Analysis of Negative Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation
• Reward, punishment, and cooperation: a meta-analysis.
• Negative Effects of Reward on Intrinsic Motivation—A Limited Phenomenon: Comment on Deci, Koestner, and Ryan (2001)
• A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.
• Pervasive negative effects of rewards on intrinsic motivation: The myth continues
• Etymology of Discipline
• Wiener process - Wikipedia - It's also known as "Brownian Motion", but I use this one.