Don’t Let Busyness Kill You

Why You Need to Stop Saying I’m Busy

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When Sweden announced the results of an experiment on how a shorter workday can actually make employees more productive, I was surprised by some of the reactions. Lots of people were questioning if that could ever work in America. I think that we are still confusing being busy (how much we work) with actually achieving something (the outcome).

The “busyness syndrome” is killing people at work in America. People feel tired, stressed out, and even depressed because of this emotional tension. Being busy makes you feel that there’s no room for anything else, that no matter how hard you work, you would always be playing catch-up. We were taught that being busy is good, creating a sense of pride: the more important you are, the busier you are supposed to be. And the other way around.

Rewiring Our Brains (a New Approach to Busyness).

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