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Goals within S-20205.com. Today, we're going to be talking about how to stay focused and productive

and how to use different aspects of your brain to actually get more done.

And I don't know about you, but have you ever felt like you're doing things all day long,

but you get done at the end of the day and you're tired and you feel like you didn't really

get a whole lot accomplished at the end of the day?

Do you ever get more stressed out by your to-do list than the actual accomplishment that you get from

the to-do list? Well, today I'm going to kind of help you understand why that is. There's an aspect of

your brain that really turns on whenever you don't complete a task. And I'm going to show you how

to use this psychological effect to actually help you get more done.

So there's a thing that's called the Ziegernick effect.

And it's this phenomenon that was discovered by Soviet psychologists in the 1920s, Dr. Zegernick.

And she observed that people tend to remember unfinished or the unfinished or interrupted tasks better than they

remember the ones that are completed. And so those things can turn in turn take our own

mental energy until they're actually completed. And this effect is based on the idea that

our brains are wired to focus on what's called an open

loop, which is basically an unfinished task.

And I'll explain that a little bit more to you in just a second.

But that open loop creates a sense of mental discomfort until it is completed.

And this discomfort is actually what drives us to complete a task. And when it's finally

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