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Part 1: 6 Laws To Lead A Productive Life 😀
Famous laws and principles to boost your Productivity
You may have heard about different laws in Physics or Chemistry, but do you know some of the famous laws for increasing productivity. Below I have listed just of few of such laws that can help you lead a productive life.
A lot of these have been adopted in the world of business and technology to increase sales and productivity for an employee, employer, customer or a Leader. You would find their widespread adoption by UI and UX experts while building mobile and web technologies.
1. Zeigarnik Effect:
The Zeigarnik effect was first stated by Sovient psychologist Dr. Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927.
Our minds quickly forget finished tasks. However, they are programmed to continually interrupt us with reminders of unfinished tasks. These intrusions constitute the Zeigarnik Effect.
Simply put, Zeigarnik Effect is the ability of our brain to remember tasks that we haven’t completed.
Next time you find your brain constantly bugging you with that incomplete online course, college assignment, or an abandoned web-series, you bet there is Zeigarnik effect at work.
Use in business:
Zeigarnik effect is widely used in creating forms to onboard users faster. The completion bar in an empty form denoting form completion percentage is a good example of Zeigarnik Effect.
2. Pareto principle or 80 / 20 principle:
First coined by Italian echonomist Vilfredo Pareto, The Pareto principle states that for many results,
Roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.
The pareto principle is a key principle in business and technology as it shows the disparity between effort and results.
Originally the principle was used by Vilfredo to show that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people. The same principle can be used to compare sales’ figures of companies, funding and dissolution of startups, comparing placement records of colleges, salaries of players in sports and so on.
