It's way more nuanced than that. Avoid the treadmill or cargo culting productivity, but don't avoid reckoning with your habits and learning the skills you need

It's way more nuanced than that. Avoid the treadmill or cargo culting productivity, but don't avoid reckoning with your habits and learning the skills you need to stay organized. That's a real thing and best done as early as possible. In my experience, I was interested in productivity stuff as early as a teenager but nothing clicked until my late 20s and then I finally found things that worked for me, and I'm glad I did. If you end up doing this stuff as an end in itself, as in it becomes the task of your day, well then you're in trouble.