There’s been a lot of pressure to become a better person during the pandemic — to pick up a new hobby, read more books, or learn a new language. And as life gets back to something like normal for many Americans, that pressure is coming around again. Some employers are reportedly asking job applicants about the "passion project" they pursued over the past 18 months. Even in social circles, there’s a sense that you were supposed to have undertaken some form of self-improvement during the Covid-19 outbreak, instead of just surviving. Vox’s Anna North dives into why some people still feel they were expected to treat the pandemic as an opportunity for growth.
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Read Anna North’s pandemic productivity story here.
Vox senior reporter Constance Grady also wrote about pandemic productivity back in April 2020.
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