Productivity Is Just Capitalism's Religion

In other religion, the purpose of it is to change the way you look at the world and yourself with faith, that will change your life. But in Productivity Religion, it's very different:

• Everytime you did something productive and valuable, it adds worth to yourself
• You are optimizing your life every time in order to improve on the things that you are working on
• To change the way you look at yourself when you are working hard to improve

In churches, priests convinced people to show up once a week and learn more about the religion. Productivity religion make you to optimize 24/7 in order to improve daily.

You buy and follow programs, plans and tools from other people in order to become more productive, which can save you from the sin of mediocrity.

Your daily output adds value to yourself, and rest is something that you need to earn. Following it feels like a reward that makes you a functional human

You should try your best to have better output every single day. If not, the guilt and regret will feel painful. Everytime that you didn't finished your goals, you wate time and when you didn't improve, you'll feel like you've failed morally, which seems painful to think about.

In other religions, they said or promised that you'll get a break and rest eventually. But in productivity, you'll not get some rest because there's so many things that you need to optimize and it never ends because there are many things in your life that needs to improve.

But of course, you still some rest at least because without energy to optimize and improve, you'll not achieve the other level that is coming yo you.

Changing your mindset from "Why I should be productive?" to "Am I being productive enough?" Will be helpful to make yourself more productive.

Once productivity becomes part of your identity, where your value and your worth depends on it and when you feel that you can't live without constant improvement, that's not productivity anymore, that's worship.