Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind More
The Zeigarnik effect: incomplete tasks are remembered better than completed ones — your mind keeps open loops active until they're closed.
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Psychology & Behavior
The Past Doesn't Owe the Future Anything
The gambler's fallacy: the false belief that past random events influence future independent ones — that after a streak of heads, tails is 'due'.
One Good Thing Makes Everything Seem Good
The halo effect: how a single positive impression in one area biases our overall judgment, making us rate everything about a person or product more favorably.
Knowing Too Much to Explain Clearly
The curse of knowledge: once you understand something, it's hard to remember what it was like not to understand it — making you a worse teacher and communicator.