Control, Letting Go, and Productivity
Dear Real Academics, In the recent months I've been thinking quite a lot about the idea of control: How I try to control situations, things, or others; how people try to control situations, things, or others; how control ultimately kills the individual soul and creativity. The type of control I'm thinking of here is not positive. There is arguably a place for positive control such as "controlling" things like bad habits or time, for example. Though here I would argue people cannot really control things like habits or time but rather can only manage or regulate them. I would also argue that control is almost always 100% related to fear. With that said, my productivity does not thrive when I become controlling. When I'm controlling I tend to do the following: Worry, stress, micromanage, become pessimistic. When a place becomes controlling I see the following unfold: Worry, stress, micromanagement, pessimism. Yes, the same. All negative. All not conducive to produc...