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The Reward Loop: Designing Systems for Success

The Reward Loop: Designing Systems for Success

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You don’t become consistent by accident. You become consistent through systems.

In this episode of Experience Systems, Steph Fitzgerald explores how reward systems shape behavior—and how they ultimately shape identity.

Using the story of Little Jack Horner, the visible craftsmanship of early home design, and modern examples like fitness tracking and gamification, this episode breaks down the difference between systems that support growth and systems that quietly take control.

Because not all rewards are the same.

Some build identity. Others train relief.

And the difference determines who you become.

What you reward becomes what you repeat. And what you repeat becomes who you are.

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