Most people are familiar with Pavlov’s famous experiment with drooling dogs. I’ll skip the gruesome details, but the main takeaway from his experiment is that you can condition dogs (and people) to respond in a predictable way to some arbitrary trigger. In this case, he conditioned the dogs to drool in anticipation of food every […]
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The Weirdest Reason We Procrastinate
There’s lots of reasons to procrastinate. Usually, the pain of doing the task seems to outweigh the benefits. So you just don’t feel like doing it, because our natural motivation is to move towards pleasure and away from pain. But there’s another reason that people procrastinate. And it’s really quite ridiculous when you think about […]