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Opinion: Tired of failed New Year's resolutions? Use the Z-effect to your advantage.

The Zeignarik effect explains that we remember undone tasks better than those we've accomplished. This can stall progress by keeping us unfulfilled or mired in regret. If we let the Z-effect motivate us instead, our unfinished business can catapult us into meaningful steps forward.
Classic review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

"The Jane Austen Book Club" meets "84 Charing Cross Road."
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society"

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

Topic: Charles Lamb

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Opinion: Tired of failed New Year's resolutions? Use the Z-effect to your advantage.

Classic review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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