The Price of Knowledge: To Pay or Not to Pay for Online Courses?
The majority of people who are selling you a course aren't doing it out of your best interest. They are selling you their course to make money, not to further your career. Don't get me wrong; there might be some good information in that same course. But 90% of any course online can be obtained for free on the internet. YouTube, OpenCourseWare, Khan Academy, Coursera, Gutenberg, Google Books, to name a few. So why would you buy one?
What defines this culture of toxic productivity?
What is this toxic productivity culture? Why is it bad for someone to want to improve themselves? Get better at time management or have control over their days and intern their lives? There is an invisible line that we can cross here. And everyone's line is different to an extent. Here I will outline what turns self-improvement, productivity or systems into toxic productivity.
Well-being and mental health
I see there is a fundamental flow with our current society and it is changing for the better. There are so many of us who focus on productivity and growth and work and building a business or career. But very few of us focus on our wellbeing or the wellbeing of others around us. I have been in so many meetings that aren't volunteer about work structure, processes and responsibilities, goals, output etc. I have yet seen emotions or feelings or mental health be the focus. It's always on the fringes or the outskirts, always volunteer or self-driven. This makes me sad, that we live in a business world about profit but not wellbeing.
