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In 1789, philosopher Jeremy Bentham mused on the two forces that control our lives:
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."His argument, in simple terms, is that human behavior is driven by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
This general idea is the basis for the most useful productivity framework you've probably never heard of:
It's called Skinner's Law..
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