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Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
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“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
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“Operant learning principles are not something we do to subjects. We do them together with the subjects.”
― Jonas Ramnerö, The ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician
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