[ChanningAllen]

> I say this as someone who was probably like you once. … I also tried all the meditation techniques whilst relentlessly trying to optimise my productivity, work and life, resulting in an inevitable burn out. … Following that, I have ended up just using a few text files for organisation and I am probably more organised than I have ever been.

I applaud your journey. (Genuinely!) But isn't it possible that even though you and I have followed a similar path re productivity systems, the path has suited me better than it has suited you? And not because either of us is a better or worse person than the other, but because we're simply different?

Here's the way I see it [0]: Society is a pack of cards with multiple suits, and there's an ace in each suit. If someone else's ace card doesn't work for you, it doesn't necessarily mean they're full of sh*t; it might just mean they belong to a different suit.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/chasing-other-peoples-ace-...

[rcarr]

I agree with you that everyone is different and there's more than one path up the mountain so if you find this useful then keep using it. I would say that it's a well explored mountain and that the main routes tend to have emerged for a reason but thousands of mountaineers carve their own routes up mountains every year and there is something to be said for that as it brings its own knowledge.