**The desire for "sure things" and unambiguous results. It's not necessarily a good thing.** Cognitive Closure is the desire for sure things & unambiguous results. This _can_ lead you to make unwise decisions. There is a scale you can use to gage your need for cognitive closure. If you're overly focused on being productive, you can push through and do things that don't actually help you in the long run in the name of cognitive closure. Making a mistake just to get something done is still making a mistake. This is [[Majoring in Minor Work]]. You can avoid the big but important tasks to instead [[focus]] on the menial but easy ones. (See: [[Parkinson's Law of Triviality]]). **** # More ## Source - [[Smarter, Faster, Better]] - [https://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/need_for_closure_scale.pdf](https://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/need_for_closure_scale.pdf) ## Related - [[Ambiguity ]] - [[Majoring in Minor Work]] - [[Parkinson's Law of Triviality]] - [[Productive Distraction]] - [[Sunk Cost Bias]] - [[Loss Aversion]]