delayed gratification
description: psychological concept describing a process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward
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The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
by Gautam Baid · 1 Jun 2020 · 1,239pp · 163,625 words
. Simplicity Is the Ultimate Sophistication 9. Achieving Financial Independence 10. Living Life According to the Inner Scorecard 11. The Key to Success in Life Is Delayed Gratification SECTION III—COMMON STOCK INVESTING 12. Building Earning Power Through a Business Ownership Mind-Set 13. Investing Between the Lines 14. The Significant Role of
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LIFE IS DELAYED GRATIFICATION Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buffett If you’re glued together and honorable and get up every morning and keep learning every day and you’re willing to go in for a lot of deferred gratification all your
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life, you’re going to succeed. —Charlie Munger People who arbitrage time will almost always outperform. The first order thought of instant gratification is a crowded path, ensuring mediocre results at best. Delayed gratification, which requires second order thinking, is less crowded
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skills as reported by their parents, and better scores on a range of other life measures. In other words, the experiment demonstrated the virtues of delayed gratification—doing what is hard now rather than doing what is easy. Over time, this builds up the muscle of discipline, strengthens one’s skills and
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, and compounds into a much greater level of success and satisfaction than taking the easier path. Charlie Munger has always been a big proponent of delayed gratification. He has emphasized the importance of patience and being prepared to act at scale when great opportunities arise. These are rare and fleeting, so we
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turned this into $400 million. Through just two investments, Munger turned a few million into $400 million. This example illustrates the significance of extreme patience, deferred gratification, and displaying strong decisiveness at the right moment. It is why Munger has said, “It takes character to sit there with all that cash and
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to load up on what you’d really thought about. So you’d do so much better.2 Munger repeatedly brought up the topic of deferred gratification during the 2017 Daily Journal Corporation meeting. He talked about how most investors are looking for a quick buck, but the best investors defer their
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the present value of future cash flows [emphasis added], we’ll take the cash flows.7 Some of the best insight on the virtues of delayed gratification in creating long-term intrinsic value comes from studying Buffett’s comments on GEICO’s customer acquisition costs over the years: In 1999, we will
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is important to align your personal values with that of your investment. Buffett and Munger are masters of practicing delayed gratification, and unless you, as a partner in Berkshire Hathaway, are equally willing to delay gratification, you will end up as a frustrated shareholder. Buffett is happy to forgo current profits for GEICO to
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the expenses are currently recognized, and all of the income will be recognized only in future years as the float produces investment earnings. This is delayed gratification in the extreme. The question in all of these cases is this: Are you, as a shareholder, willing to give the same commitment to
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delayed gratification that Buffett and Munger practice? If not, you may want to revisit your participation in this security and in other securities with similar long-term-
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of the advice and temptations to ensure a profit by selling an existing position demonstrates a quality of mind quite out of the ordinary. Embracing deferred gratification is what leads to the single biggest edge for an investor. Human nature makes it difficult to utilize this edge. This difficulty is the very
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is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. —Warren Buffett The path to lasting wealth is deferred gratification, savings, and compound interest. Develop the habit of saving in such a way that you enjoy your present reasonably well and also ensure a bright
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, they are also compounded. The U.S. retirement system greatly rewards those who defer gratification. Claiming social security at age seventy leads to 76 percent higher inflation-protected benefits compared with claiming at age sixty-two. Resist instant gratification. Embrace delayed gratification. Wealth, in fact, is what you don’t see. It’s the
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books to save money. Today, I cherish those memories. During his interview with Jason Zweig, in September 2014, Munger remarked that few people have the deferred gratification gene: “It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t
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get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that [emphasis added].”20 Why did Munger say this? To understand the deep reason behind
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is because we fear missing out on the instant gratification we may get from consuming and buying them. If we are not born with the deferred gratification gene, is there no way to inculcate it? As it turns out, this problem has a simple solution. It’s simple but not easy. It
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/The-Best-of-Charlie-Munger-1994-2011.pdf. 16. Seneca, Letters from a Stoic (London: Penguin, 1969). 11. The Key to Success in Life Is Delayed Gratification 1. Peter D. Kaufman, ed., Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 2005). 2. Elle Kaplan, “Why Warren Buffett’s ‘20-Slot Rule’ Will Make
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-equity ratio, 133 decision-making, 20, 140, 332; Griffin on, 290–291; outcomes in, 258–259 deep value, 174; Buffett on, 179; Graham and, 178 delayed gratification, 113, 239; investment and, 104–105; Munger on, 97–98, 110 deliberate practice, 41; key elements of, 42 Deloitte, 200 Democrats, 277–278 denial, 134
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situations, 199–200; testimony of, 181–182 Grant, Adam, 66 graphite electrode shortage, 194 Graphite India, 196; HEG and, 191–192; stocks, 188 gratification. See delayed gratification gratitude, 352 gravity, 22 Great Crash, 282 Great Depression, 273 greed, 346–348, 347 Greenblatt, Joel, 72, 201; on capitalism, 202; on diversification, 244; on
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, 331–332; Buffett on, 11, 60, 68–69, 99–100, 109, 148, 219; comparison of results in, 216; control in, 237; in cyclicals, 197–198; delayed gratification and, 104–105; edges in, 104–108; empathy in, 184–186; equity, 103; in expanding businesses, 317–318; flexibility in, 75–76; game-changing, 188
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; Buffett and, 4–6, 167, 289; on business models, 214–215; on change of mind, 297–300; on competence, 59; on compounding, 28–29; on delayed gratification, 97–98, 110; on diversification, 244; on emerging markets, 301–302; on experience, 193; financial independence of, 81–82; on Fisher, 245; Gates on, 29
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by Saifedean Ammous · 23 Mar 2018 · 571pp · 106,255 words
supply, as will be discussed in Chapter 6. He would also have understood that the only cause of economic growth in the first place is delayed gratification, saving, and investment, which extend the length of the production cycle and increase the productivity of the methods of production, leading to better standards of
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich · 7 Sep 2020 · 796pp · 223,275 words
, Rwandans require at least $212 in a year before they are willing to pass up $100 today. On average, around the globe, people won’t defer gratification for a year until the delayed amount exceeds $189. FIGURE 1.4. Global distribution of patience across 76 countries. Darker shades indicate greater patience. Hatched
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or one tomorrow (with extra to give away). Practicing patience in this institutional environment doesn’t pay in ways that will foster the cultivation of deferred gratification in this context.22 This study alone doesn’t nail down an answer to the question of whether market integration specifically causes patience. For one
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 words
engaged in as it suits our schedules or lifestyles or our need to fill an inner emptiness, but never something that might require discomfort or delayed gratification or hard choices—and certainly not something to get teargassed over. Not to say that these aging leftists have lost their desire for a less
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman · 29 May 2011 · 383pp · 92,837 words
’s because people “discount” the future, an economic term meaning that rewards closer to now are valued more highly than rewards in the distant future. Delaying gratification is difficult. And there is something very special about right now—which always holds the highest value. Kahneman and Tversky’s preference reversal comes about
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
by Alan Cooper · 24 Feb 2004 · 193pp · 98,671 words
sufficient force to dissuade the manager who sees what looks like a way to avoid months of expensive effort. The essence of good programming is deferred gratification. You put in all of the work up front, and then you reap the rewards later. There are very few tasks that aren't cheaper
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designed the system for him and him alone. Designing for Clevis Clevis had no experience with computers and no patience for the typical attitude of delayed gratification that most programs have. The solution to Clevis's navigation problem was simple: He could not and would not "navigate," so there could be only
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wants, but keep very detailed records of those actions so that full accountability is easy. Polite Software Gives Instant Gratification Computer programming is all about deferred gratification. Computers do nothing until you've put enormous effort into first writing a program. Software engineers slowly internalize this principle of
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deferred gratification, and they tend to write programs that behave in the same way. Programs make users enter all possible information before they do even the tiniest
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words
than 60 percent of exhibition revenue is from overseas markets. Hollywood thus needs exportable blockbusters whose primary target “is people with an underdeveloped capacity for deferred gratification; that is, kids.”66 Since increasingly Hollywood has come to depend on customers who see films three or four times or more, these kids—the
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an energetic and enlightened selfishness on behalf of the common good, the ethos was fortified by a spiritual catechism celebrating altruistic toil, ascetic self-denial, deferred gratification, and a devotion to good works and to charity—all laced with an egalitarianism in which work and faith, virtues available to all, generated both
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a portrait of the modern idea of adulthood, distinguished by “the characteristics…of a fully literate culture: the capacity for self-restraint, a tolerance for delayed gratification, a sophisticated ability to think conceptually and sequentially, a preoccupation with both historical continuity and the future, a high valuation of reason and hierarchical order
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.”3 Postman is typical of modern psychological and sociological views of child development, which to some degree track the Protestant ethos (self-restraint, delayed gratification, rationality, and order). Playing on child/ adult dualisms, this perspective suggests that childishness, in contrast to adulthood, privileges: IMPULSE over DELIBERATION; FEELING over REASON; CERTAINTY
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core. —Otto Riewoldt, Brandscaping1 IN THE CENTURIES when capitalism was developing as a remarkably productive system of economic organization rooted in work, investment, saving, and deferred gratification, an identity politics associated with the Protestant ethos emerged that was perfectly suited to capitalism’s needs. Post-Reformation man, a hardworking Puritan ascetic with
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a potentially lucrative market niche, but the risks are considerable and the profits far down the time line in a marketplace that no longer accepts deferred gratification as a standard. Sachs thus must depend for his mosquito-net campaign on international aid organizations and philanthropy of the sort made available by the
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
system was inherently unstable. His biggest complaint was the stinginess of the ruling class—their psychological fixation on saving up money. Keynes’s antagonism toward deferred gratification—toward moving economic value from the present into the future—is what made him acutely critical of the peace treaty. He saw the war as
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-day year, 29; charged by seventh-century Chinese pawnshop, 179; compound, 16, 35–37; Fibonacci’s calculation of, 240, 242–43; for the lender’s delayed gratification, 6; on loans in Roman grain trade, 117; paid in labor, 42; as return on investment, 6–7; Roman law and, 235; on some census
That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum · 1 Sep 2011 · 441pp · 136,954 words
ways, LAX, JFK, and Penn Station are us. We are the United States of Deferred Maintenance. (China, by contrast, is the People’s Republic of Deferred Gratification.) In the Terrible Twos, our roads got more crowded, our bridges got creakier, our water systems got leakier, and the lines in our airports got
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of the core values on which American greatness depended in the past. The first of these changes involves a shift from long-term investment and delayed gratification, which were characteristic of the Greatest Generation, to short-term gratification and get-it-now-while-you-can thinking, which alas is typical of the
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott · 1 Jun 2016 · 344pp · 94,332 words
, M., Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (Simon & Schuster, 2011). 5Eliot, T. S., Four Quartets (Harcourt, 1943). 6The original experiments on delayed gratification took place at Stanford in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mischel, W., The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (Bantam Press, 2014). 7Dweck, C., Mindset
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