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People who reliably meet every demand placed on them will eventually snap and stop complying if their workload isn't kept sustainable.

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motivation What makes effort feel worth it: the neuroscience of wanting to act, apathy, dopamine, and habit.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Gretchen Rubin actually said

  1. Gretchen Rubin Writer on happiness, habits and human nature
    If you keep adding deadlines without also checking whether the workload itself is sustainable, you risk what I call Obliger-rebellion-the point where an Obliger who has met, met, met, and met expectations suddenly snaps and refuses to meet any more.

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