![rw-book-cover](https://www.refinery29.com/images/10665813.jpg?crop=2000%2C1052%2Cx0%2Cy409) ## Metadata - Author: [[anna-codrea-rado|Anna Codrea Rado]] - Full Title:: Do I Have Productivity Dysmorphia? - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Career tips|Career tips]], - URL:: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/09/10640493/what-is-productivity-dysmorphia?utm_source=morning_brew - Finished date:: [[2024-11-12]] ## Highlights > "I objectively know that I should be more content with my level of output, but also I know that I’m at my creative best when I’m feeling a little edgy." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jcga27eh7vsp24x8gv1e9qna)) > Jiménez pointed me in the direction of something known as the hedonic treadmill. Coined by the psychologists Philip Brickman and Donald T. Campbell in the early 1970s, [hedonic adaption](https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095928134) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jcga36b6k34x1dwh06nnze29))