Variable reward - Notes from 'Hooked'

Everyone likes to be rewarded for their actions and sometimes for taking any action.

In the chapter on 'variable reward' I learnt that it not the act of receiving the reward but the expectation of a reward that is most enjoyable / rewarding to everyone.

Everyone one of us must have taken an lottery ticket in their life. If you carefully think about it was the expectation that you might have a chance of 1 in 27,269,633 (Lottery Mathematics) that motivates you to buy that lottery.

In any product of app,

Learning from today:

1. If you are not prepared for a client call, don't attend it. You will just make it worse.

2. Focus on 2 or max 3 things at a time. The more you learn, the more you will struggle to put to practice.

3. Always think twice before doing a task. Do the 20% that will yield you 80% result. The better you can delegate and present the better you will get in your career.