Our philosophies around adherence reminded me of an article featured in the Modern Love section of the New York Times in 2006. The article entitled "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage", which dominated the website's list of most emailed articles that year, described the author's "reverse anthropomorphism", or to put it another way, the application of insights on animal behavior to human behavior (she was researching a book about a school for exotic animal trainers). Setting any gender commentary aside, the article described her use of "approximations", or "rewarding the small steps toward learning a whole new behavior" on her husband."
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