Ovsiankina effect
Without visualizing our work, we don’t see the number of incomplete tasks we’ve amassed. This makes it nearly impossible to understand just how many incomplete tasks remain. Our brains hate this because our brains crave closure. No really, they do! Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found that the human brain needs closure. This phenomenon—known
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You need to finish your projects.
I want you to deeply internalize the benefits of finishing so much that it seems stupid not to push yourself through a project and see it through the completion.
Now as a disclaimer not every project needs to be or should be finished - sometimes circumstances change and there's no reason to keep working on