Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American author
Indian-American author Padma Lakshmi is also a television host and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
She said the pandemic has taught her to stop confusing being busy with being productive. You don t have to say yes to every single thing, she told CNN. What I learned is that a lot of the stuff that we do is actually not that necessary and we shouldn t confuse being busy with being productive.
She said we need to remember that, as Covid-19 restrictions ease and people go back to normal life, we don t need necessarily need to do all the things we were doing before.