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Seeing the recipients of your ticket price is the ideal instant gratification to go with all of that gourmet goodness.
It's no gratification at all".
"This leads to the realization that life is not just about my own pursuit of happiness or search for comfort, but the ego is always wanting gratification and this can lead to all sorts of problems.
There is a certain irony to all of this: instant gratification – perhaps in the form of a latte grabbed on the way to work – is made possible in an age of tax avoidance and massive profits, and yet it makes us more impatient as campaigners, more unwilling to give up that gratification for the things we know are right.
"What was most remarkable to me about Kewauna was that she was able to marshal her prodigious noncognitive capacity — call it grit, conscientiousness, resilience or the ability to delay gratification — all for a distant prize that was, for her, almost entirely theoretical," Tough observes of his young subject, who gets into college and works hard once she's there.
But heck, maybe teleporter tech will move even quicker and the Bezos Beam will provide instant gratification for all our petty consumer desires before we manage drone delivery.
It's instant gratification for all involved.
If we choose to place that burden on these teams and individuals then they surely deserve a reward beyond their own gratification - after all that entitles everyone to complain if and when their expectations are not fulfilled!
Delayed gratification is all the sweeter.
And that's exactly what delayed gratification is all about.
"Such gratifications if at all having been made, cannot be attributed to AEL".
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