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by austin-cheney 1041 days ago
After talking about the biggest failures I have seen through my career in learning JavaScript I watched a YouTube video about an interview with a divorce attorney. It was interesting because the behaviors I heard expressed in that video exactly aligned with behaviors I see expressed in failures to learn after large commitments of time investment in programming. It inspired me to write this: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/JavaScript_...

The most important learning for me out of this is that people are predictable and how we commit is modeled by how perceptions of rewards are attained. It also inspired me to dive deeper into self learning about behavior and economics, because people do exceptionally irrational things to avoid perceived discomfort.

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Do you hade a link to the Youtube video?
It's in the link he shared: A Divorce Attorney's Thoughts on Love and Marriage [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8-9Op2nM&t=1322s