Definition

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state. But there's a limit to how much unresolved "stuff" it can contain before it blows a fuse.

• The short-term-memory part of your mind—the part that tends to hold all of the incomplete, undecided, and unorganized "stuff"—functions much like RAM on a personal computer.
• Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state. But there's a limit to how much unresolved "stuff" it can contain before it blows a fuse.
• As soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

Reference

reference: { Getting Things Done
page:
author: & David Allen
bib: - Allen, David (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New York: Penguin Putnam.
ISBN: 978-0-14-200028-1
tags: #productivity #tactic