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Human beings have what’s called the serial-order effect: The longer we spend thinking about something, the wilder and more unusual our ideas tend to get.
What Can Musical Variations Teach Us About Creativity?
nytimes.com
According to this, *a task that has already been started establishes a task-specific tension, which improves the cognitive accessibility of the relevant content*.
The Zeigarnik Effect
Malik Alimoekhamedov
A lot is wrong with the internet, but much of it boils down to this one problem: We are all constantly talking to one another. Take that in every sense. Before online tools, we talked less frequently, and with fewer people. The average person had a handful of conversations a day, and the biggest group she spoke in front of was maybe a wedding reception or a company meeting, a few hundred people at most. Maybe her statement would be recorded, but there were few mechanisms for it to be amplified and spread around the world, far beyond its original context.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Ian Bogost
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