2 ‘Messy Habits’ That Instantly Boost Your Productivity

Psychology Today | 31.07.2026 23:03
In the 1920s, a Berlin psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik noticed something odd about the waiters at a local café, according to a 2020 study published in Memory and Cognition that traces the discovery back to its origin. They could, seemingly out of habit, recite a long, complicated, unpaid order from memory with total precision, then lose every detail of it the moment the bill was settled.