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Redefining Productivity —When and How Less Is More

If a stranger were to ask you today how productive your day was, what would come to mind first? For the majority of us, it’s how many things we have managed to do in the limited hours of the day. We, as a society, have agreed to this particular definition of productivity, and not often does one stop to question it. If we want to define this word we so commonly use, we start by studying its multiple origins. The first known use of this word is in the early 1600s, and its etymology is part French from the word productif, “serving to produce”, and part Latin from the word productivus, “fit for production” (Oxford English Dictionary, n.d). ….[READ]