Giertz: Peak productivity comes from fun, easy work rather than painful struggle
Simone Giertz · Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator · Jun 5, 2019 · at 38:21
Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz discusses overcoming work-related guilt and unlearning the belief that meaningful work must feel painful or difficult.
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“If something comes easy to you, and you think it's fun then that's probably what you're best at, and, but at the same time, we have this, like, I've noticed for myself, at least, and that I've heard from a lot of other people, do you have this, like, programming of feeling guilty about that, because you're like, no, but this is too easy, like, I'm supposed to be like, If you're working hard and you're being really productive, it's because you're like really pushing yourself and it's painful and it's just so not true.”
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