![]() Your brain releases dopamine when you achieve goals. Our ongoing research (not yet published) has found that checking off items is psychologically rewarding: After you complete a task, being able to literally check a box makes you happier than when you are not given a box to check.Ĭomplicating matters, finishing immediate, mundane tasks actually improves your ability to tackle tougher, important things. ![]() One of the main reasons this happens is that human brains are wired to seek completion and the pleasure it brings - a tendency we term “completion bias.” Completing simple tasks, such as answering emails or posting updates on your Twitter account, takes little time and allows you to check off items on your to-do list. ![]() Unfortunately, our and others’ research shows that people have a natural tendency to overly focus on the former (such as responding to mundane emails) at the expense of the latter. ![]() President Eisenhower was not alone: In their work lives people routinely feel pulled between tasks that demand immediate attention and tasks that are important, the ones that bring them closer to achieving their long-term goals. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent. -Dwight D. I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. ![]()
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