Metadata
- Author: Shayla Love
- Full Title:: Facing a Tedious to-Do List? This Trick Could Make It Easier
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Productivity,
- URL:: https://psyche.co/ideas/facing-a-tedious-to-do-list-this-trick-could-make-it-easier?utm_source=rss-feed
- Finished date:: 2023-10-01
Highlights
A recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that when facing difficult tasks – ones that are repetitive and monotonous in nature but still necessitate attention – you can make the experience feel less difficult overall if you deliberately end your work with a set of easier tasks (View Highlight)
People average out an experience (rather than adding its components together) to form a judgment of what was involved Collectively, they wondered how they could make their to-do lists feel less daunting, and also feel more satisfied at the end of the day (View Highlight)
The reason is probably related to both the recency effect, and another bias that people have shown in the past, Lai says, related to how people average out an experience (rather than adding its components together) to form a judgment of what was involved (View Highlight)