It is often easier to obsess over the one thing you didn’t finish today than the 20 things you did, writes Charlie Gilkey. Explaining the Zeigarnik Effect, he says our brains treat incomplete tasks like a persistent alarm system, keeping them front and center until we handle them or explicitly tell our brain we’ve got this covered. This creates an exhausting cognitive drag. He shares ways to give those open loops better homes and holding places.
Source: Productive Flourishing, April 28, 2025. Link.
When we let open loops run wild, they end up running us instead.”
Related: Two-minute tips for turbulent times with David Allen, GTD, May 2020. Link.
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