Principlev1
Deliver rewards within 60 seconds of completing the routine
Deliver rewards within 60 seconds of completing the routine to create strong associative links in the habit loop.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Humans discount future rewards hyperbolically rather than (hyperbolic discounting), The strength of association between a stimulus and response (temporal gap weakens stimulus-response association), Dopamine neurons encode prediction error rather than (dopamine encodes prediction error), and Temporal proximity between behavior and reward determines (temporal proximity determines learning strength). The principle prescribes immediate reward delivery based on how temporal credit assignment works in biological learning systems.