Here is the secret to why over 1 billion people have played Tetris, and how to stop procrastination.
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Due to the conscious mind’s need for completeness it makes folks feel better to see the puzzle completed. Now you know why.
The conscious mind’s need to completeness affects everyday life. Trick your mind into thinking it is done and procrastination will cease.
As you may have read in my last post in the book “Visual Intelligence Sharpen Your Perception. Change Your Life” by Amy E. Herman teaches how to increase your observation skills. Well now I am observing my need to complete everything to the point of taking no action and/or creating stress around it.
You know how we sometimes put something off and are eventually barely able to undertake it if at all, due to the overwhelming feeling that comes with putting it off. This is part of the Zeirgarnik effect.
How this effect was discovered
The conscious mind’s need for completeness is known as the Zeigarnik effect discovered by Russian psychologist, Bluma Zeigarnik, in the 1930’s she is sitting in a café in Vienna when she notices that servers have great recall skills, but once they put the food on the table they are relieved of remembering.
Once I began to look at this concept for completion I was able to decrease my need to procrastinate. I am breaking things down and not feeling like I have to get everything done now.
Everyone has this need for completeness
We all have this need for completeness. It is a human need. That’s why we see “cliffhangers” in use on television; it is the Zeigarnik effect that keeps us coming back.
You may not care about trivia facts but once someone asks you it is irritating not to know them.
Why Tetris is a great success – over 1 Billion have played
The author of “Mind Hacks”, credits the Zeigarnik effect for the success of Tetris, which is estimated to have been played by over one billion people.
The game takes advantage of the mind’s pleasure in tidying up and uses it against us.
This knowledge may help you stop procrastinating
This will enable some of you to begin to take care of things put on hold because at some point they seemed too overwhelming. The feeling of being overwhelmed can cause us not to do anything.
Solution for procrastination: Trick the mind into thinking it is being done.
Reference Book: “Visual Intelligence Sharpen Your Perception. Change Your Life” by Amy E. Herman
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