The Unproductive Nature of Productivity: How Stopping Helps Get More Done

Chris Gioielli, Staff-Intern, University Counseling Center

Jessica Poulsen, Staff-Intern, University Counseling Center

Dustin Risser, Staff-Intern, University Counseling Center

Often our culture views productivity and efficiency as ideals to maximize and achieve. But what if we emphasize these things to a fault? Engaging in rest and play, and developing the ability to be bored, foster a way of living that serves to invest in our productivity. In this way, the counterintuitive nature of being seemingly unproductive serves to form us to be people more fully devoted to God, our work, and others.