"In a paper entitled Skinner As Self-Manager, his colleague Robert Epstein explains Skinner's singular ability to see his own life as one big mass of variables, some of which could be altered by tweaking others. As a child, he kept forgetting to hang up his pyjamas, so he rigged up a system whereby a sign on a string – "Hang up your pyjamas!" – blocked his bedroom doorway. Once he complied, the garments tugged on the string, pulling the sign out of the way. As an adult, he wired his desk lamp to a clock, to record his work hours. "When I was a child and came down to talk to him," his other daughter recalled, he'd "click off the desk light, spin around on his swivel chair and, with a big smile, say, 'Hello! What can I do for you?' When I left, he would turn on the light, starting the clock again." He ripped foam from his chair to reshape it to his bottom, to discourage fidgeting. Epstein writes: "He always spent a few minutes each day… searching for and analysing variables of which his behaviour seemed to be a function." • #схватил_за_мозг и #упрощение_строптивой - × × ×