What category does Vicious Circle belong to?

Vicious Circle belongs to the "Concepts" category in personal knowledge management and productivity.

What are the key topics related to Vicious Circle?

Key topics related to Vicious Circle include: concepts, systems, psychology.

Vicious Circle

Q: What are alternative names for Vicious Circle?

Vicious Circle is also known as: Vicious cycle, Negative feedback loop, Downward spiral.

A negative feedback loop where problems create conditions that worsen the problems.

Also known as: Vicious cycle, Negative feedback loop, Downward spiral

Category: Concepts

Tags: concepts, systems, psychology

Explanation

A Vicious Circle is a negative feedback loop where unfavorable conditions reinforce behaviors that create more unfavorable conditions. In PKM: not capturing ideas leads to lost insights, which reduces motivation to capture, leading to more lost ideas. Information overload causes stress, which impairs thinking, making information even harder to process. Recognizing vicious circles is the first step to breaking them - by intervening at any point in the loop with better habits or systems.

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Information Overload
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