The Productivity Trap: How Hustle Culture Hijacked Your Nervous System

Somewhere along the way, being busy stopped meaning “having a lot to do” and started meaning “being a decent human being.”

If you’re not running on caffeine and guilt, are you even trying?

We tell ourselves that productivity is the path to safety - financial, emotional, existential. But the modern version of it doesn’t create safety; it hijacks the same stress systems we’re trying to regulate.

Hustle culture isn’t about hard work.
It’s about chronic activation, and the illusion of control that comes with it.