Higher private savings requires delayed gratification by individuals.
This gratification requires commitment.
Permissive regulations allow at least the minimum impulse gratification required for individual well-being.
Why is it so hard for smart people who have been around awhile -- Mr. Weill and Mr. Grubman qualify on both counts -- to see that if the road to instant gratification requires taking a wrong moral turn, such a turn is inadvisable?
It also provided the kind of viewer gratification required to sustain her life project at its long, low burn.
Competence requires discipline, delayed gratification, and continuous learning -- much harder than head-tilting, smiling, winking, or mastering the simultaneous head tilt, smile, wink, and ingratiating pat on the arm.
When children are tired or hungry, or they've had lots of sweets but nothing nutritious to eat, they may have more trouble managing the delayed gratification required to take turns or share.
But keep in mind that delayed gratification requires clear goal-setting and strong willpower.
Internet download services offer instant gratification, but most require you to watch on your computer screen, which is nobody's idea of normal.
An example of where Obama has condensed his message, those missing boots, because the simple and direct thought is something the American people in this world of television, Internet(s) and immediate gratification seem to require.
It not require a lot of capital, and having instant gratification.
