The Power of Consistency and Commitment

Miss gambling compulsion is a very very powerful an important thing. If you look in the standard textbook of psychology you'll find probably nothing on it except maybe one sentence talking about Skinner's rats. You have four or five elementary psychological tendencies combining to create this man with a hammer syndrome. George Bernard Shaw said and had a character say in the doctors dilemma in the last analysis every profession is a conspiracy against the lady but he didn't have a quite right because he's not so much conspiracy as it is a subconscious psychological tendency.

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