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Not feeling very productive lately?

Good.

The coronavirus pandemic has warped our already-warped cultural feelings around productivity — and socially signaling that productivity — convincing us that if we haven’t perfected homemade sourdough, read three new books and written the next great American novel, we have failed quarantine.

The solution isn’t practicing “self-care” or slapping on a chia-pudding mask. It’s shifting our focus to small wins.

“During this extraordinary time, we have to realize that everyone now has an additional part-time job that might be called Citizen of the Covid-19 Pandemic,” said Teresa Amabile, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and co-author of “The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.”

Source: New York Times

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