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73. Turning Work into Play

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Much Money Would You Pay to Avoid the Stimulation?

People who are asked to sit in a room by themselves and do nothing, could you talk bout well, it is basically the easiest task you can assign subjects in an experiment. Most people find it so aversive to have no stimulation whatever that they're even willing to experience a little pain and play with that,. just to have something to feel. The majority of men and a healthy number of women do. So how long are they in this room? 37 years? Of course not. I'son the order of 15. You could do it standing on your head, at least you think you could. It doesn't even matter how much to avoid them, because what comes next flies in the

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