Feeling stuck in an “Unproductive” streak

Roberto Moreno Celta
3 min readSep 7, 2020
Photo by XPS on Unsplash

It’s not burnout, it’s more like “not feeling it”

That’s the best sentence I can came up with for the feeling of “not being productive” I am having this couple of months. I think I should try to explain to you where do I think this feeling comes from and then explain how I’m “pushing through” this and actually getting stuff done, even when I don’t feel like it

Context

I live in Argentina, basically one of the countries where the quarantine has being on since March, that’s way too much time without much human interaction and basically without experimenting day to day problems and solutions. What I mean by that is, and I’m pretty sure that you at least once have experience ground breaking ideas on your way to work, looking into nowhere in a park or just simply hearing people talk in the streets, for people like us (creatives), it’s really about finding solutions to problems we face each day, and… What happens when the problem I face each day is the lack of experiences?

I know I might be making an argument where there are a lot of response by now, like it’s almost the end of the year and people have been dealing with things more complex than I, that’s for sure, but work wise, this has been a difficult time for creatives, at the same time the best chance for…

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Roberto Moreno Celta

UX Designer & Front End Dev. Love for food, movies and video games.