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GET IT DONE: How the Science of Motivation Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

The Next Big Idea

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Introduction

In 18 97, a frenchman named paul dumaire has just arrived in heno, vietna as a newly appointed governor. He decides to give the people of henoi that most french of modern luxuries, indoor plumbing. Dumer constructs a massive, modern sewer system, laying more than nine miles of pipe beneath the bustling city. This sewer system is soon overrun with rats, tens of thousands of them. And those rats carry disease. Soon people are coming down with the bubonic plague. And rats born in du mar's gleaming sewers are to blame. The French government needs to fix this problem, and fix it fast. In 19 o two, they

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