Sentences with phrase «uncompleted tasks»

And I tend to end up with more uncompleted tasks on my to - do list at the end of the day than I started with.

All those undone items lead to stress and insomnia because of the Zeigarnik effect, which in essence means that uncompleted tasks will stay on your mind until you finish them.

The effect, in other words, is a handy psychological term for an experience you're probably already familiar with — that distracting and incessant way uncompleted tasks buzz around your mind.

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The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.

Thanks to their dismal performance as depots for tasks in progress, to - do lists end up being a warehouse of the uncompleted and a continuous source of worry that we're not accomplishing enough.

The Ziegarnik Effect, in simple terms, is the propensity of human beings to remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.

Her speculation, later confirmed, was that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.