Productivity should reduce unnecessary work, not glorify surviving it.

Getting better at working should mean doing less of the unnecessary work, not becoming more heroic about enduring it. Where the goal becomes capacity, the reward for handling more is more, and the underlying question of whether the work needed doing never gets asked. Efficiency turns into endurance.

Instead of asking how to get through your list faster, ask what on it could simply not be done. Try deleting one thing entirely this week and see whether anyone notices.