Immediate Vs Delayed Gratification

Wednesday, 4 March 2026. And immediate grats, the gratification, you know, versus prolonged gratification.

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You know, we live in a world where, and I'm sure I've spoken about this before, but you know, I guess it always benefits, you know, me and whoever listens to

this or reads this. 

It's always going to benefit to come back to the topic, right, come back to the subject. We do live in a world where a lot of things are instant and, you know, the younger the generation, the younger people are, the more likely it is that they would have been born in a world where everything is instant. 

The mobile phone that I'm using right now, I'm capable of doing so many things instantly, you know, basically popping out information that we would have otherwise would have had to have gone to a library to get before. 

You know, I can, I'm not even scratching at the surface when it comes to how quickly certain things, you know, you know, how quickly we can get certain things. 

But on the more subject of like instant gratification, especially like, you know, when we get notifications, you know, let's say, for example, we get a notification on messages, you know, iMessage, or Instagram or TikTok, you know, we get hit with these instant, you know, hits of dopamine. It feels good because, you know, you want to know who's messaging you, who's kind of like, you know, who wants you, you know, getting a message from somebody always, you know, always feels good. 

And, you know, you also get a hit of dopamine when you are essentially, you know, scrolling, you know, scrolling or social media, you see something, it makes you laugh, you see something, and it keeps you interested, you see something, you get a notification from somebody, you know, little tiny squirts of dopamine here and there. 

And it's really just, you know, I mean, I don't want to get into the conversation about, you know, attention, but essentially, like, we get a lot of things instantly, pizzas, you know, we could just go on a, go on an app and we instantly get pizza and stuff like that, right? It's, um, essentially like a world where everything comes in so instantly. 

And the point that I'm trying to make is that these things make it really hard for us to wait, right, for, you know, uh, you know, big things that we want. So then we either try to take shortcuts or we just, you know, we struggle, we become lazy, we struggle to now strive for things, you know, like the surface. Let's say, for example, waiting 10 years to become a millionnaire. 

Like, you know, I don't think if, you know, many people want to become a millionnaire, they would like the idea of financial freedom or maybe like a time freedom, whatever you want to call it. 

But ultimately, it's like the things that, you know, are required to do and you need to be done in order to achieve that. A big part of it is waiting, working hard and waiting at the same time whilst you're working hard. 

The truth of the matter is that some things, a lot of things really, aren't going to come straight away, especially there are things, you know, that, you know, big things that we want to work towards and not going to come straight away. And we have to learn. I have to learn anyway as I continue to grow, to become, you know, a rap artist. 

Um, you know, of my own right. I'm gonna have to learn that there's a lot of goals and a lot of things that I've written down that just aren't gonna happen, you know, overnight. It's gonna take time and in a world, in a technological world where everything can be so instant, sometimes, you know, it can get very frustrating.