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What is your personal definition of "Productivity" and what do you think is its end goal?

I have my own ideas, but I want to first see what you say before "clouding" the answers with my thoughts.

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  • Productivity is when your boss makes you overwork yourself and pockets the difference 👍

  • Productivity is a measure of output completed whithin a time frame. This could be goods, services, or even personal goals as long as the output is measurable in some way and it was completed within a realistic time frame.

    Washing dishes, losing weight, and making children happy can all be counted as productive if there are goals and a way to measure them. Even reduced anxiety by taking s day off could be described as productive if there is a way to measure it even if the measure is subjective. Cleaning up a park can be productive even though the end result is removing things instead of creating them!

    Basically it is getting things done within a reasonable time frame and is not limited to business.

  • It is a measure of how your actions get you closer to your goals.

    Hence, if my goal is learning Japanese, and I spend time in reading raw manga, I can argue I'm being productive. However, if my goal is to learn Rust, then reading raw manga is not being productive.

    Productivity does not have an end goal other than what you set for yourself.


    EDIT:

    Edited the last sentence to make it say what I meant it to say. "Productivity has an end goal…" isn't it. 😅

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