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Are you drooling?

9/13/2022

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Colleagues,

MVP: Urgent stimuli have the same effect on us a bell did for Pavlov’s dog.
 
Pavlov’s dog, you remember that, right? Neurologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned a dog so that it associated a bell with food. When Pavlov rang the bell, the dog began to salivate as if it was getting food.
 
Our brains work in a similar fashion. We can learn to associate one thing with another, even when there isn’t a logical connection.
 
One night last week I couldn’t sleep. I decide it would be better to be productive than to just lie in bed staring at the ceiling. So, I walked across the hall to my office (the good and bad of a home office) and began working.
 
Do you know what I did from 1-3 am?
 
I cleaned up my email inbox. I moved things out, flagged others, and cleaned it all up. 
 
It felt good when I finally went back to sleep.
 
When I got back to work in the morning (a bit later than usual 😉), I realized that in those two hours I had achieved nothing meaningful. All the emails that needed responding to still needed responding to, and the emails I had moved were irrelevant – no matter which folder they would have been sitting in.
 
But it had felt like I achieved something at 3:00 am!
 
Have you ever added a completed item to your to-do list just so you could cross it off?
 
It isn’t very different from salivating.

Cheers!

​Frederick
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