You May Have Heard That The…

… human uncon­scious mind has an irre­sistible need for clo­sure. If you did, you under­stand why you have felt an invol­un­tary, maybe over­whelm­ing urge to keep going after you read the title of this post.

In 1927, Gestalt psy­chol­o­gist Kurt Lewin noticed that wait­ers have a much clearer rec­ol­lec­tion of still unpaid orders. His stu­dent at the time, Russ­ian psy­chol­o­gist Blyuma Zeigar­nik went on to study the phe­nom­e­non. What she found is: Peo­ple remem­ber incom­plete tasks much more eas­ily than com­pleted ones. This is now called the “Zeigar­nik effect”.

Want to know the whole story? Watch the short video below.

And if you want to become a mas­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tor, check out the NLP Prac­ti­tioner and Coach Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion train­ing (next one is in September 2010). This is part of what we’ll learn.

Schedule of all courses and workshops HERE.

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