“I meditate to be more productive” (or efficient, or focused) is like saying, “I drink green tea to fight possible dementia.” Possibly, reducing risks of getting dementia (or Alzheimer’s, or ) is one of the benefits of tea. But no one drinks green tea like this, as a medicine. Depending on your preferences and effort you want to put it, you can keep a stock of your basic sencha or hunt down more expensive limited harvest gyokuro or anything like that, and that’s going to be for something other than medical reasons. You’re someone who enjoys tea. Who values it for its own qualities, and not for the side effects. Surely, you can take your tea as medicine, but I doubt anyone actually does that.

Meditation is the same way. It’s because you believe that it’s the right path for you. Be that enlightenment or something else you’re seeking. Or maybe you’re there in your practice that you don’t seek anything, it is just the way you live your life. But it’s not a hack to stay organized in the things that are very far from everything that meditation stands for or is part of.

And yet, the author here is ready to contradict herself. Who can judge what the day is for someone else? Maybe someone starts off meditating as a therapeutic measure, and finds something more than that.