Flow state can boost productivity by up to 500% and deliver better neurochemical rewards than busyness. Counting Slack messages, calls, and emails measures activity, not progress. Knowledge workers need mental space for meaningful work, not just more tasks.
When you enter into flow state, you have this zenith of potential, meaning you're 500% more productive, you're releasing all these positive neurochemical cocktails, and people who are in flow state experience the greatest measures of life satisfaction. Old paradigm was built on productivity, which is measured by activity. Well, if you're measuring your Slack messages and measuring your phone calls and measuring your meetings and measuring your emails, feels productive because you did so much, you were so busy, but did you actually move anything significantly forward? Model of cognitive thinking, you're not. You're often not. You have no space for the real knowledge worker, very little.
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