Immediate Versus Delayed Gratification

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Re: Immediate Versus Delayed Gratification

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even when you delay something there is some immediate gratification isnt there?

lets use an example for savings, if you have the mindset that it is good to save not to spend unnecessarily then you feel gratified when you move some money into savings, or when instead of buying the latest toy for your kid you put some money in their college fund, etc. you can apply the same thinking in other contexts as well. its how you are wired and how you think, which may provide gratification now and later.

See i think some people arent wired to even think that saving will give them gratification, if that makes sense.

For example with myself im not going to use a money example but lets say a food example.

There is a piece of rich fat delicious chocolate cake infront of me. I want that chocolate cake, i might know somewhere at the back of my head that if i eat this cake now it will not be good for my health, but i dont even think ‘maybe i will feel good if i resist the temptation’ my brain doesnt get that far it just thinks ’ i want that cake and i want it now’ and the impulsivity takes over.