Zeigarnik Effect and your Memory

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Let me begin with a quick story. Once I went to an Indo-Chinese restaurant with a few friends. The server, a well groomed middle-aged man, walks over confidently, greets us and asks if we are ready. And as we start telling him the orders, he just repeats it and smiles back, not having to note it down. I was pret…