Description: "For decades, societal pressures have had us scrambling to do more, achieve more, overcome more, BE MORE-all with the promise that we'll feel accomplished, fulfilled, worthy . . . even happy. Are we happier? Will it ever be enough? Being productive isn't necessarily about how you manage your time. It's about how you manage your emotions. In a world obsessed with getting more done, Toxic Productivity unmasks the hidden roots of hustle culture and dismantles the myth that "doing more makes you more worthy." In this timely and unsparing guide, psychotherapist and @well.guide founder Israa Nasir offers research-backed insight on dynamics such as self-worth, shame, social comparison, burnout, and perfectionism that keep us always busy but never satisfied. Nasir gives expert and tangible guidance so you can separate who you are from what you do"--
Brief description: Israa Nasir, MHC-LP, is a New York City-based psychotherapist, writer, and the founder of WellGuide--a digital community for mental health awareness. A Pakistani-Canadian child of immigrants, she has a specific focus on mental health, identity formation, and healing for the AAPI first- and second-generation immigrant community. Israa has been featured in NBC, Vox, Huffpost, Teen Vogue, and other major publications and has been invited to speak at corporations such as Google, Meta, and Yale University.
Review Quotes:
"In Toxic Productivity, Israa Nasir reveals the dirty secret behind doing enough: 'enough' never comes. Combining brain science and data-driven studies with wisdom from the therapy room and poignant personal anecdotes, Toxic Productivity is for the chronically overcommitted, the compulsively overachieving, and the constantly self-critical."
―Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play