Paralysis of Analysis

How to make complex deloEsli you have to make difficult business, to which you do not know how to approach, break the problem into many subtasks. And these are the smaller sub-tasks, the better.

For example, you need to create an important document. The first point would be: sit down. Second, turn on the computer. Third, open a text editor. Fourth: to make the first two sentences.

It is best to record these items, put the list before my eyes, and perform activities. You will not notice how addicted to the process, and the job is done.

The scientific explanation: Paralysis Analysis (information overload) - a condition where too long and diverse thinking of the problem leads to the fact that working memory "off" prihvatyvaya with you and that area of ​​the brain that is responsible for the strength of will - the prefrontal cortex. You can even experience the suffocation as a physical symptom of the onset of paralysis of analysis.

The reasons for this phenomenon is not fully understood, but known way to trick the brain: try to do to stop thinking about his difficult task as the actual reality, and look at it only as a sequence of small, do not frighten the working memory tasks, each of which is processed sequentially.

via factroom.ru