Sentences with phrase «deferred gratification»

Dolan describes PtLS as an extreme form of deferred gratification in which the sufferer endures a lot of unpleasant experiences today, hoping that those experiences will somehow lead to a better life tomorrow.

Just like a toddler, the concept of deferred gratification is beyond her.

I've lived all my life with people who are in to deferred gratification, in fact most of them will never have any fun — they'll just defer gratification all the way to the end.

Deferred gratification really does work if you're trying to create a great company or if you want to get wealthy yourself.»

Yet over the millennia, we've created a modern society which rewards deferred gratification and forward thinking — very much removed from our basic animal instincts.

People always think about getting nice current yields, but I believe that part of the deferred gratification of dividend growth investing is also getting those low yield, high dividende growth stocks.

Savings are «deferred gratification».

In his Tennessee drawl, he counsels his callers on deferred gratification: «Sell yer truck, and don't even think about that vacation until y ’ all have an emergency fund.»

«Then, as they get older, talk to them about deferred gratification so they learn the difference between short - term and long - term financial goals,» says Heath.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

But you must tamper the importance of IQ with «characterological» traits like self - discipline and deferred gratification.

Politics of deferred gratification Under one of the additional scenarios, known as RCP 4.5, humans take longer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but eventually do so, and under the other, known as RCP 8.5, carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise through 2100.

In a supreme act of deferred gratification, he chose to save the best till last.

Small wonder the poor make poor food choices and suffer obesity, when race - baiting activists in and out of government are labeling the promotion of deferred gratification as a racist cultural bias.

It's about impulse control and deferred gratification, values that can only be effectively taught if one is willing to impose a little adversity and emotional dissonance on one's children.

But children who are raised this way end up becoming children with very little experience using the psychological muscles of deferred gratification, emotional regulation, and self - discipline.

Struggles, difficulties, and deferred gratification are essential to the development of emotional regulation, intimacy, self — discipline, and feelings of connection with the world around them.

Although they're often misunderstood, when used correctly, time - outs are a simple and effective tool for managing behavior and helping your child develop the ability for self - regulation and deferred gratification.

If the effects of our environment are truly pervasive, then not only do the poor have a solid excuse for spurning a life of exertion and deferred gratification, but the prosperous are entitled to rationalize indifference to the poor as a result of their social conditioning rather than any moral failings.

The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, hard work, deferred gratification and self - reliance have resulted in the high crime rates, the increasing number of unwed mothers, and the relatively uncompetitive academic performances of black youth.

Life, as a result, has become contemptibly ignoble or morally empty, ruthlessly exploitive, and a spiral of endlessly deferred gratification.

I learned the value of saving and deferred gratification.

From Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Experiments at Stanford University beginning in the 1960's to a current study from the Graduate School of Education at UCSF, the conclusions have not changed: Impulse control, or the ability to plan ahead and defer gratification, enhances a child's ability to fulfill long - term goals.

Prudent people are able to defer gratification and plan for the future; they can make sacrifices today in order to ensure a better tomorrow.

The study focuses on the «performance character strengths» of drive — defined as «the ability to apply oneself to a task and stick with it» — and prudence — defined as «the ability to defer gratification and look to the future.»

And yet, we all hope that by the time they're 18, our children will be able to not just defer gratification when it comes to the consumer goods they want but also plan a budget, save wisely, and think carefully when taking on debt.

But parents must keep in mind that allowance is supposed to be a tool that teaches saving, budgeting and deferring gratification.

Hey, not all of us have the ability to defer gratification.

Let people learn to defer their gratification, put more money down, and on the whole, they and the whole nation will be better off.

Inability to defer gratification, including impulsiveness.

Maybe I'm just unable to defer gratification that long!

Not exact matches

On the first page, the composer inserted two extra bars just before the main melody returns — gratification is deferred, with the result that we are pulled into the piece that much more intensely.

But humans, who combine the VTA and the prefrontal cortex, can see beyond plain causality, tapping into a subtle, continuously updated feedback loop that enables us to defer immediate gratification in favor of rewarding long - term projects, such as learning to play an instrument.

Can you defer self - gratification?

Ottawa reasoned people needed an incentive to defer instant gratification and save money for a long - distant future.