Hey there. Welcome to drinking from the toilet, the podcast about training with positive reinforcement in the real world.

I'm your host, Hannah Branigan.

Welcome to episode number 54. Today's topic is behavioral momentum. But before we get to that,

I have to take a moment and admire the fact that we currently have 121 reviews on iTunes, which is

awesome. What's so cool about 121 though? Well, it's a square

number, 11 times 11, and it's the sum of three consecutive primes, 37 plus 41 plus 43.

And that's pretty cool. But even better, almost all of those are reviews with five stars.

We do have two, two star reviews and a one star review, which I'm going to assume we're

either a mistake or possibly someone not understanding the star rating system, but no better

because I will only obsess over those for a few weeks or months, probably.

Fortunately, I have some awesome reviews from folks

like Three Dog Family, who loves this podcast

because it's nerdy, weird, and fun, which are three

of my favorite adjectives.

And also from K-9 or cop, who says,

thank you for forcing my brain to shape-shift

and see my work in a whole new way.

Of course, we don't really force

anyone to do anything on this podcast. We're all about positive reinforcement, and force-free

is a little bit of a theme for us. But I appreciate that we're making, changing your way of

thinking, an inviting thing. Like, we're making it easy to do, and hopefully making it almost so easy

that it's almost an inevitable event, because that's pretty cool. And on that note, thinking

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