On Punishment
"There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment." -- Ursula Le Guin From the essay, Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty. Lately, I've become very aware of the ways we punish ourselves to achieve our goals. It's not surprising that most of us use punishment as fuel for our dreams. There's an entire body of research on negative reinforcement. Heck, there's a website called Stickk.com that punishes you if you don't ach