Psychology says people who need to finish the chapter before they can put the book down aren’t obsessive — their brain treats an unfinished narrative the same way it treats an unresolved argument, as an open loop that will consume background processing power until it closes, and that inability to stop mid-chapter isn’t about the book, it’s about a mind that cannot rest inside something incomplete
Picture this: it’s midnight, you have an early meeting tomorrow, but you’re 20 pages from the end of a chapter. ...
