It's possible that I missed something, so I don't want to call the author a lying liar. But I feel confident saying that line is... mistaken.
First off, this was not a general survey as implied, but a survey of Headway app users.[0] So "most people..." should be "most users of the productivity app Headway...".
Also, the author says "productivity is most people’s number one priority in life"... but the Headway website[0] says no such thing. The closest it gets is "Headway polled over 1 million users from the US (800K), the UK (150K), and Australia (85K) from January to July 2022 to determine the most popular self-growth goals." For me personally, my self-growth goals (code better) have little to do with my priorities (family, friends, etc), so conflating the two seems deceptive.
The fact that these two mistakes bolster the authors point is, no doubt, a happy coincidence.
It's also a...productivity app. Of course the people who want to use such an app would self select to pick being productive as their priority, and it might not even be permanently, just temporarily in order to make themselves feel good too, psychologically telling themselves that they should be productive.
First off, this was not a general survey as implied, but a survey of Headway app users.[0] So "most people..." should be "most users of the productivity app Headway...".
Also, the author says "productivity is most people’s number one priority in life"... but the Headway website[0] says no such thing. The closest it gets is "Headway polled over 1 million users from the US (800K), the UK (150K), and Australia (85K) from January to July 2022 to determine the most popular self-growth goals." For me personally, my self-growth goals (code better) have little to do with my priorities (family, friends, etc), so conflating the two seems deceptive.
The fact that these two mistakes bolster the authors point is, no doubt, a happy coincidence.
[0]https://apps.get-headway.com/productivity-survey/