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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Best of 2024: Israa Nasir | Toxic Productivity: Reclaim Your Time and Energy in a World That Always Demands More

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Join Israa Nasir as she explores the concept of toxic productivity and its impact on our lives. In this episode, Israa discusses how striving for constant productivity can drain our emotional energy and distort our sense of self-worth. She shares her personal journey as an immigrant and a therapist, connecting her experiences to broader cultural pressures that valorize output over well-being.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.

0:24.7

What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's

0:28.9

unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.

0:34.4

This is Jesse and Lenny Ware from Tablemanorsors and we're currently sponsored by Deliveroo.

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Absent of severe mental illness where suicidality is like a common symptom, if a group of very

1:33.7

young people who are between the ages of 16 and 18 are already trying to opt out of pressure

1:41.1

because they feel like they have no other options. They feel like there's so much writing on them.

1:46.3

They feel like there's so much fear of failure and rejection and bringing shame.

1:51.4

That is like a created environment.

1:55.0

And that is not an environment where anybody can thrive and meet their best potential.

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