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"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck."
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We can apply the belief of gestaltism (when we have parts of something, we always want to create a whole) to task management.
That means that we want to complete something if we have parts of it already figured out, especially if it's close to making sense or close to achieving some sort o...
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"We need to have belief in ourselves – some kind of expectation that we can do something. And when we're closer to finishing something that we had previously failed to achieve, then that optimism increases."
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When an interruption happens and it stops us from completing a task, we tend to feel unsatisfied and in need of closure.
This interruption can provide a motivational boost and determine us to finish what we started, but it's not always the case.
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It's a psychological trick to avoid work paralysis, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's discipline of writing and it means to stop a task when everything is going well.
You will be more motivated to get back to a task that you've interrupted when it was going well.
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It is a school of thought emerged in Austria and Germany in the early 20th century.
It was built of the belief that humans make sense of the world through patterns; thus, the whole picture was more important to us than its individual parts.
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Studies show that it can actually be beneficial.
To get all the positive effects from this (and to get back at it) you should feel that you are close to completing that task and you also should feel challenged enough by it, to care about its completion.
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Never stop learning. Never stop educating yourself. When you stop learning, you stop growing & maturing!
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Much of our anxiety comes from uncertainty about the future. We never really know what will happen tomorrow or in a year from now.
The best thing you can do is to focus on your very next step, right now. Do something with your day. Forget about the rest.
Despair presumes you know the rest of the story. You don't. Keep going; the loveliest things could happen all of a sudden.
So, if you think that things are never going to get better, stop. The truth is: you don't know.
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