People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products partly so they're rewarded for their success partly so they can go on and do new things.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
I liked the game I enjoyed the game and the game fed me enough and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing and that I could possibly make a priority in my life versus other sports.
In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them if they stay.
In a capitalist society persons who create capital like Michael Eisner are given the staggering rewards.
We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers who have high paying alternatives in industry more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.