story: On average, participants remembered 90 percent more of the interrupted and unfinished assignments than the ones they’d completed. Not only that, the interrupted and unfinished jobs were at the top of their lists—the first ones they wrote down. The completed ones, if remembered at all, came at the end. “So far as amount of time is concerned, the advantage should lie with completed tasks, since a subject who completed a task naturally spent a longer time with it than one who did not,” Zeigarnik wrote.
