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  "description": "By rewarding the mind for its patterns of behaviour, we're inviting more 💁🏻‍♀️",
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  "textContent": "Anyone who's trained animals (including children 😉) knows that rewarding a certain behaviour is likely to deliver more of it.\n\nIt's basic ‘operant conditioning’ and links back to the pattern-matching mind: if it sees itself making gains from behaving in a particular way, it'll do more of that.\n\nPretty straightforward.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Are you reinforcing bad behaviour?",
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