I will come back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Whitt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. A few days ago, I read a tweet that I thought was brilliant, which

is kind of amazing to do because tweets only have 280 characters. And I retweeted it. It's

from a person's handle called Feta Shervu. And they said, the four thieves of productivity

are one, not saying no, two, poor brain chemistry, three tortured relationships, four environments

that don't support your goals. And then they say, they simply said self audit, fix one

thing at a time. And it was, I mean, it's just a really simple little tweet, but it sparked

this whole conversation in my mind about how these are the things that underpin, I mean, they

have it written in the negative, the thieves of productivity. But I thought these four things could

easily be talked about as in their counter and the reverse as the underpinnings of satisfaction

and health, mental, emotional, you know, business, whatever health. So what we wanted to do is have

a little conversation around what came up for us as we were discussing, what are these,

why are these the thieves of productivity? And what are some of the ways that we can approach this

that really put the onus on us as individuals to ensure that we're doing as much as we can

to keep our systems clean, the systems of ourselves where these are all nodes in the system. And how

do we make it so that these systems are running as well as they can so that we have the desired

in our culture productivity is the metric that we're all striving for or at least told that we're

supposed to be striving for. And I think that most people and you listening probably also struggle

with being productive and not because necessarily you're lazy or you can't actually accomplish

things. I think there's a lot of things going on in our lives. We all have our personal life,

our professional life, our relational life, whether it's dating and attraction or just friendship

circles. We have extra things we have to do at the time of this recording. The world's been a

...