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the invisible string that makes humans dance, sometimes off a cliff.
means Something — usually a reward or punishment — that motivates a person to act or behave in a particular way.
from From Latin incentivum, 'that which sets the tune,' from incinere, 'to sound an instrument,' built from in- ('on') plus canere ('to sing'). Originally an incentive was musical — the note that started the song, the trumpet that called you forward — before it drifted into the figurative sense of anything that strikes up action in the soul.
cobra effectbounties for dead cobras spawned cobra farms in Delhi
root meaningfrom Latin for setting a tune, igniting song
perverse twistrewards often produce exactly what you didn't want
goodhart's lawa measured target stops being a good measure
brain wiringdopamine fires for the wanting, not the having