[creatrixcordis]

nice post BUT: i brush my teeth because i want to keep them clean, minus the tingly feelings since my tooth paste doesn't have the chemicals, and according to your technique, you are reducing us to this reward model which actually is detrimental to our psychological progress as human beings, i don't need a cue to depend on when i want to do something, i know what i want to do and i go do it, using your technique you are perpetuating distrust in our own minds and un-confidence in our thinking process by relying on placing cues in our immediate environment to trick us into doing things, i sense a habit of distrust of our abilities coming on and slithering through our psyches, you want to make people feel confident about their decision processes not insecure about relying on external cues, i mean i tend to think we are slightly more advanced than lab rats, but then again that is why advertising is so successfull, because we really do operate on this reward model and most of us don't know what we need or want and think some third party might

[jakejake]

I agree the tooth brushing example was detrimental to the point of the post.

You could also say, I put on my underwear after drying off merely out of habit and the underwear cartels make their cottony underwear so smooth merely to provide a pleasant reward for my ass cheeks. But, in fact I put on my underwear for a variety of practical reasons and the smoothness is not really a reward.

The snack break example was more to the point. That's a voluntary thing that becomes routine, but could be skipped with no social repercussions.