I have an observation and a hypothesis about rewards. In life we follow rewards. Rewards can be of many kinds. It might be the morning coffee, it might be a reheated pork chop cooked with cinnamon and eaten on the terrace in a rush before work. It might be the first cigarette, it might be a child’s voice heard first thing in the morning.
I speak deliberately about morning rewards, because at the start of the day they are the easiest to notice and appreciate. But they go on happening all day long. The next coffee, the next cigarette. The child
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