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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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Through my "Operation Knicks Knowledge" experiment, I've discovered that basketball rules evolve constantly—and one particular change reveals a profound truth about human nature. We manage what we monitor, and we encourage what we reward.
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0:50.0 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier. I've talked about my operation, Nix Knowledge, where I've decided to take a deep interest in New York City's basketball team, the Nix. |
1:02.5 | I wanted to see if I could make myself interested in a subject. |
1:07.1 | And I have. |
1:09.0 | As I've been learning more about basketball, I've been struck by the fact that the |
1:13.0 | rules change over time. Basketball was invented in 1891, but the rules have evolved and continue to |
1:20.8 | evolve. For example, now that I'm paying attention to the Knicks, I'm interested in the ongoing |
1:26.5 | debate about whether the |
1:27.8 | scoring of the three-point field goal should change as a way to make the game more exciting. |
1:33.9 | One decades-old rule change was particularly interesting to me because it reflects a deep |
1:40.0 | insight into human nature. That truth is, we manage what we monitor. So if something |
1:48.6 | matters to us, we should find a way to monitor it, or else it may get ignored or discounted. |
1:55.7 | In the 1940s, decades after basketball was invented, its rules were changed to recognize the assist. |
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