The Zeigarnik Effect
It’s hard for me to eat right. To find the time to workout. To keep up on literature. To get all the features done for Draft.
When I was young, my parents remodeled the downstairs of our house. My sister and I got this awesome new homework area and our own desks. But I remember being a brat when my father said it was ready for us. My desk didn’t have a desk pad calendar:
Which I wanted for a soft writing surface.
A naive, impatient kid. But what’s interesting is how this childlike attitude manifests itself in adults in a much more destructive way.
We hate things that aren’t finished.
Like the times we go out for dinner and lament we ate too much. We regret finishing the entire plate of food. Now we feel terrible and don’t want to see the movie we were planning afterwards.
Or we can’t find the time to workout. We’ve tried DVDs at home, like the popular P90X, but the...