Sentence examples for unproductive things from inspiring English sources

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Our curiosity has us doing utterly unproductive things like reading news about people we will never meet, learning topics we will never have use for, or exploring places we will never come back to.

See, when you're rich you can do stupid and unproductive things for a long time.

The second: we can feel scared and all the negative, unproductive things that come with fear -- and shrug and say, "Well I'm doing the thing anyway".

The first: we can feel scared and all the negative, unproductive things that come with fear and channel that nervous energy into pointless circles that get us no where.

If I don't have a way to procrastiwork (creatively bounce around--work on something I'm not supposed to be working on while putting off the thing I should be working on), I do unproductive things like endlessly refresh Twitter/email or spend HOURS searching for brushed brass wall mounted toilet paper holders.

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Death is, among other things, ridiculously unproductive.

So why do we all have bought into this idea that if we aren't busy and reachable 24/7, we are unproductive or even worse; things aren't going to happen?

How to "let go" It can seem next to impossible to talk of letting go when associates are ostensibly unproductive and lackluster, when things seem to be falling apart all around us, and when it seems that we live in a dog-eat-dog world.

I should have done more things for the unproductive heck of it rather than for how they would affect my record.

Addictive substances, Internet time wasters, negative people and unproductive pastimes are examples of things and activities to avoid if you want to attract more abundance in your life.

You can see two examples in the video below: I'm sure there's an explanation, but the way things were done was obviously unproductive.

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