Sentences with phrase «years of delayed gratification»

Leaving that world for the so - called «legitimate» life typically demands years of delayed gratification and long - shot odds.

I have loans to pay off, a family to support, and years of delayed gratification to justify!

«After four or five years of delayed gratification [during college], there is great temptation to pursue a lifestyle,» says Vic Patel, founder of Forex Training Group.

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It seems so easy: you buy - and - hold cash flow properties over time, sacrificing and delaying gratification; in five, ten or twenty years you have a pile of monthly cash flow and you get freedom.

All your years of compounding and delaying gratification didn't mean squat because you ended up multiplying the final figure by a near zero number.

They will begin to develop emotional maturity, such as an understanding of the value of delayed gratification or helping others, which will help them navigate their preteen and teen years.

Individuals often do not internalize delay of gratification until the teen years or later.

During the follow - up visit (3 years old), kids with moms who had encouraged their children's autonomy showed better levels of cognitive functioning — specifically, the kids were more adept at processing «higher» thinking like delayed gratification and juggling multiple concepts.

You have spent all of these years in school thinking that your advanced degree would allow you to make enough money to justify the many years of hard work and delayed gratification, only to find out all is not as it seems!

The child's executive functioning was evaluated at three years of age by using a range of adapted games that reveal a child's ability to delay gratification, the strength of their working memory and their capacity to think about multiple concepts simultaneously.

We are the species of agendas, delayed gratification, and five - year plans.

In my first year of university, I remember I was in a psychology class and in the module on behaviour, we learned of a study about delayed gratification.

It is the regular and predictable annual growth of the dividend that changes the trajectory of your life as a result of shrewd delayed gratification because more money comes your way each year without any additional effort on your behalf.

Considering you delayed gratification for ten years of your life, that may not seem like the greatest reward in the world.

I don't recall there being a great audience 10 or 20 years ago for a game like Don't Starve, which is all about delayed gratification, a very intellectual approaches of play: what am I doing in this world?

Just won't accept the wisdom of their elders, always thinking about the here and now, never prepared accept a mere 20 million years or so of delayed gratification...

Over the course of those three and a half years, I had to assess whether the cons (loneliness, expensive travel, constantly delayed gratification, a relentless sense of longing) outweighed the joy I felt every time we were together.

The study utilizes two diverse samples of low - income male toddlers to examine observed ERS during a delay of gratification task in relation to maternal and teacher reports of children's externalizing behavior 2 to 6 years later.