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Delayed gratification? That's one way to put it. Another way is "different gratification". Instead of eating chocolate you are eating a dream of future chocolat
by swayvil 4y ago
Delayed gratification? That's one way to put it. Another way is "different gratification". Instead of eating chocolate you are eating a dream of future chocolate.
So becoming disciplined could be called developing a taste for dreams.
When the glow of accomplishing a step in your 12 step plan towards chocolate-accquirement is actually more satisfying than eating the chocolate, a shift in taste has occurred. And they call you "disciplined".
- yessirwhatever 4y agoThat's something totally different. Delay of gratification, the act of resisting an impulse to take an immediately available reward in the hope of obtaining a more-valued reward in the future. The ability to delay gratification is essential to self-regulation, or self-control, aka discipline.
- swayvil 4y agoWhat's the difference? In either case you are preferring the dream of future chocolate over actual immediate chocolate.
- yessirwhatever 4y agoDiscipline has nothing to do with whether you think chocolate is good or not, or if you should eat it or not.