2/ One thing you learn in dog training (and in management) is that the ability to successfully reward behaviors (and thus generate more of them) is ENTIRELY dependent on the duration between behavior and reward. A dog that sits and gets reward 1 second later learns far better >
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3/ than a dog that gets a reward 10-15 seconds later. So too with rewarding an employee the same day or week he does great work, vs an end of year bonus.
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4/ Much of what we do, as we navigate through life, is "train" ourselves. This is hard when the rewards (being buff, retiring in style, having a nice house, winning literary awards) happen 5 / 10 / 30 years after the effort.
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5/ The only "technology" I've ever stumbled across that makes this easier is to try to redirect your thinking so that the EXPERIENCE of working becomes the reward. Compliment yourself for every set done in the gym, every page of fiction written, every deposit into the IRA.
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6/ excellent point! (he said in a half-meta way) https://twitter.com/sadmoonanalog/status/1293554982734696448 …
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I think about writers a great deal when I think about time-lag in rewards, where it's gotta be even slower than for me on average. Man.
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