The Science of To-Do Lists: Psychology Can Make You More Productive

Are to-do lists about feeling a sense of accomplishment or actually get[image error]ting things done? The typical way of writing lists can result in feeling good about yourself at the expense of productivity, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit.[image error]

Before I started working on this book I wrote to do lists the same way that most people write to do lists. And it turns out this is exactly the wrong way to write a to do list according to psychologists and neurologists. I would sit down in the mor...