Leverage Curiosity or Fear to Boost Your Productivity Levels

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Jun 24, 2026 • 1 min read


Productivity is driven either by curiosity or by fear.

If you think you are highly unproductive, pick up something you are curious about or induce an artificial fear - e.g., deadlines, irrelevance, or failure. It’s not always comfortable, but fear can be a powerful motivator.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses