This week’s posts laid the groundwork for the productivity chapter of Supermorning. We discussed how essential meaning and purpose are for sustaining high levels of productivity. 

Let’s take a look.

The checklist

1. Why do you work? There are two main pathways:
   • You work to earn money to build a good life.
   • You work towards an inspiring purpose doing something you would happily do for free. 
2. Debt, work and consumption.
   • The first option typically gets people stuck in a vicious cycle between high consumption and stressful work.
   • Getting out of this cycle is challenging and should be done as early in life as possible. 
3. Liberty, purpose and obsession. 
   • The alternative is a virtuous cycle between liberty, purpose and high life efficiency. 
   • This cycle easily leads to obsession, which could become unhealthy if left unchecked. 
4. Life is long enough to do special things.
   • A truly worthwhile purpose is a multi-decade project.
   • Over such a time frame, the power of compounding can produce stunning results. 

In short, productivity becomes a whole lot easier if you’re inspired by what you do. Liberty and purpose are the keys to such inspiration. 

So, get yourself into the virtuous cycle with a multi-decade awe-inspiring purpose and see what happens 🙂