01/14/2020
The old way of thinking is a holdover from the industrial era - more time means more productivity. We need a new yardstick. Very interesting article.
“In their research, Loehr and Schwartz identified four sources of energy—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and argued that people need to nurture each source to avoid burning out like Hughes. “To be fully engaged,” they wrote, “we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
As we decouple time from productivity, we need a new productivity yardstick. Increasingly, experts are suggesting that we structure our lives not around time, but energy.
