{"id":970,"date":"2016-07-11T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:22:37","slug":"gettingthingsdone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/gettingthingsdone\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Brain-Based Research Behind Getting Things Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hidden-xs hidden-sm\"><em>Our brains are wired to complete projects. Two business school professors are researching &#8220;completion bias&#8221; and how checking off a few mundane tasks can actually help you complete the bigger &#8220;to do&#8217;s&#8221;. Read on to learn more about this fascinating research.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-xs hidden-sm\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-xs hidden-sm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/the-science-behind-why-youre-always-busy-yet-never-getting-anything-done-and-how-to-work-around-it\">The Science Behind Why You&#8217;re Always Busy, Yet Never Getting Anything Done (and How to Work Around it)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-xs hidden-sm\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/author\/alex-cavoulacos\">Alex Cavoulacos<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"compiled-content share-base\">\n<p>I want you to play a short game with me. Close your eyes and imagine a long to-do list that lays out a mountain of work in front of you. Now imagine\u00a0crossing something off of that to-do list. How does that make\u00a0you feel?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/the-science-behind-why-youre-always-busy-yet-never-getting-anything-done-and-how-to-work-around-it\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brains are wired to complete projects. Two business school professors are researching &#8220;completion bias&#8221; and how checking off a few mundane tasks can actually help you complete the bigger &#8220;to do&#8217;s&#8221;. Read on to learn more about this fascinating research. The Science Behind Why You&#8217;re Always Busy, Yet Never Getting Anything Done (and How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work-smarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}