Delayed gratification

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Delayed gratification is "the process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with"[1]

Notes

  1. M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (1978), p. 18; cited by Rick Ezell in The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People, p. 142