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Few things offer greater return on less investment than praise—offering credit to someone in your organization who has stepped up and done the job.
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with a pure mind one performs any action of speech or body, then happiness will follow that person as a shadow that never departs.
The Discourse Summaries
S. N. Goenka
We’ve all experienced the letdown of unmet expectations. An expected reward that fails to materialize is worse than a reward that was never anticipated in the first place. How does cue-induced craving translate to our pleasure-pain balance? The balance tips to the side of pleasure (a dopamine mini spike) in anticipation of future reward, followed by a tip to the side of pain (a dopamine mini deficit). The dopamine deficit is craving and drives drug-seeking behavior.