McCann's metaphors here are tight and true; a cocaine rush is a "small, immediate hammer of energy".
If what binds these poems to the world is a kind of unlovely pragmatism, their magic derives from Dugan's ability to foreground the small, immediate detail, while lifting our eyes to something just beyond it.
A better idea would be to adopt a smaller immediate tax cut to stimulate the faltering economy, something for which there is broad bipartisan approval, and wait to see how the larger tax cut fits into Congress's spending plans on health, education and other pressing needs.
Administration officials say his main job is not to implement the long-term plan -- it calls for reciprocal steps over three years to create a Palestinian state -- but to try to get Israel and the Palestinians to take small, immediate steps to ease tensions.
"Can you create artificial deadlines to mimic the same thing?" Steel's recommendation borrows from the approach of the NYU psychologists Gabrielle Oettingen and Peter Gollwitzer, who study self-control and goal-setting: make your targets as small, immediate, and specific as possible.
Delay discounting (DD) is the preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards.
Participants are presented with choices between small, immediate rewards and larger, delayed rewards.
One direction that appears promising would be to offer small, immediate, and high frequency reminders and incentives to search.
Nanigans' focus on technology and delivering lifetime value over smaller immediate returns has been a hit with social game and e-commerce game companies.
Previously, we found that distinct brain areas predict individual selection bias in decisions between small immediate ("Now") and larger delayed rewards ("Later").
