The Zeigarnik Effect - PsyBlog

The Zeigarnik Effect - PsyBlog

What can waiters, the TV series 'Lost' and the novelist Charles Dickens teach us about avoiding procrastination? One of the simplest methods for beating procrastination in almost any task was inspired by busy waiters. It's called the Zeigarnik effect after a Russian psychologist, Bluma Zeigarnik (above left), who noticed an odd thing while sitting in a restaurant in Vienna.

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The counter-effect to procrastination: the Zeigarnik Effect seems to be the best way to counter procrastination. In brief: just start anywhere, however small this part of the total enterprise really is, it doesn't really matter : once you're started, you've started.