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#572 - Life Hacks 210

Modern Wisdom

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Hack Productivity With the Zygonic Effect by Leaving Sentence Part Completed

The zygonic effect is a psychological bias that was discovered by this guy who was studying waiters and waitresses in restaurants. It's the same reason that Netflix shows you cliffhangers at the end of them to get you to watch the next one because the human mind abhors this sort of open loop and it likes a closed loop. The way that you can use this to hack productivity is give yourself an easier in when you go to restart a project. And yeah, leaving sentences part finished is a nice solution.

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