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The Cult of Productivity: Burnout, Hustle Culture, and the Pressure to Always Perform
Paperback
CareersGeneral SociologySelf-Help
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world that worships busyness and mistakes motion for meaning, *The Cult of Productivity* is the book that finally tells the truth. This is not another self-help guide promising a better morning routine or a smarter system for managing your inbox. This is a reckoning.
Chapter by chapter, it dismantles the architecture of modern overwork, examining who benefits from your exhaustion, who was never meant to rest, and what the growing revolt against the grind is quietly trying to tell us.
But this is not a book about giving up. It is a book about waking up.
About choosing a life that is genuinely yours rather than one handed to you by a culture with a vested interest in your dissatisfaction.
*The Cult of Productivity* asks the question the treadmill was designed to drown out.
What, finally, is all of this for?
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