How to capitalize on the Zeigarnik effect
- Reduce your tendency to procrastinate. If you have a task you've been avoiding, begin with the smallest thing to be done. The desire to close the loop will help you take small steps to get it done.
- Get people to take note of what you're saying. Try using ellipses instead of a full stop in your headline so that your reader will feel like "there's more to this."
- Memorize more information. Break your information up into parts. Or spread your learning over several days.
- Remember difficult names. Learn one part of the name, then come back to the second part when your done memorizing the first.
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