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What was most interesting to Schultz, however, was how things changed as the experiment proceeded. As the monkey became more and more practiced at the behavior—as the habit became stronger and stronger—Julio’s brain began anticipating the blackberry juice. Schultz’s probes started recording the “I got a reward!” pattern the instant Julio saw the shapes on the screen, before the juice arrived:
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
It makes sense then to plan an aerobic workout on the day after the anaerobic;
Don’t Lose Out, Work Out
RUJUTA DIWEKAR
There’s a scene in the movie *Lawrence of Arabia* in which Lawrence puts out a match with his fingers and doesn’t flinch. Another man watching tries to do the same and yells in pain.
“It hurts! What’s the trick, then?” he asks.
“The trick is not minding that it hurts,” Lawrence says.
This is one of the most useful life skills—enduring the pain when necessary rather than assuming there’s a hack, or a shortcut, around it.
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
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