Historic List Makers
Which American Founding Father kept daily lists of virtues and tasks?
Benjamin Franklin
Which productivity strategy says you should tackle your hardest task first each day?
Eat That Frog
Psychologists say unfinished tasks stick in our memory due to which effect?
Zeigarnik effect
What economic indicator measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
What scientific law states that disorder tends to increase in closed systems?
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Which Renaissance polymath had notebooks with sketches, inventions, and lists of things to learn?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which method divides tasks into urgent/important quadrants (often linked to a U.S. president)?
Eisenhower Method
How does The Zeigarnik Effect explain why an interrupted song will stay stuck in your head until you hear the ending?
memory of unfinished tasks
What metric measures income inequality within a population?
Gini Coefficient
According to ____________ law, systems naturally move toward greater disorder.
Entropy
Which Italian writer said, “The list is the origin of culture.”?
Umberto Eco
Which simple system prioritizes three tasks each day in order?
1-2-3 Method
According to the Zeigarnik effect, people tend to remember _________ tasks better than completed ones.
unfinished tasks
What index combines life expectancy, education, and income to assess development?
Human Development Index (HDI)
Which civil rights leader said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Eco even curated an exhibit about lists at which famous Paris museum?
The Louvre Musuem
Which early 20th-century productivity method tells you to list 6 priorities each evening for the next day?
Ivy Lee Method
One strategy suggested keeping a list of tasks that were completed, this is call a?
What index compares global purchasing power using the price of a certain fast-food item?
Big-mac Index
The quote: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” expresses the belief that history gradually moves toward what moral outcome?
justice or moral progress
Eco categorized lists into two types, one practical and one that is more imaginative or literary focused. Which was...
The Poetic Lists
Which flexible productivity system combines lists, journaling, and symbols in a customizable notebook format?
Bullet Journal
Using the Zeigarnik Effect intentionally could help motivate a type of preparation for academic competitions called?
Studying or preparing for WSC
What index attempts to measure how happy citizens are in different countries?
Happiness Index
A certain 1909 painting answered whether the world improves was created by which artist?
Will Crawford