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A study conducted at Stanford University under psychologist Dr. Mishel in the 1960s explains a lot about why it’s beneficial to delay gratification. In the study, children were placed in a room with one marshmallow on a plate. The lead researcher gave the children an easy instruction: You can eat the marshmallow now, or wait 15 minutes and receive two marshmallows. The researchers found that the children who were able to wait for the second marshmallow without eating the first one scored higher in SATS exams, had better health, and were less likely to have behaviour problems.
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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment and the data collected following it prove that being able to delay gratification is a crucial life skill in order to be successful.
How to achieve it?
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Gratification: — A sense of reward or gain.
Instant Gratification — Immediate benefit or reward. Or Reward for the short term, Less rewarding (mostly painful and regretful) In a long term.
Delayed Gratification — Less rewarding (painf...
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“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
"Discipline can seem like...
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Choosing long-term benefits over short-term pleasure is at the heart of a self-disciplined lifestyle. You’re limiting your immediate pleasure in exchange for an even greater future pleasure.
In fact, delayed gratification is another way you can define self-discipline.
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Now you understand why Allah (Almighty God) has given us
The Concept of Jannah?
"The ultimate reward for sabr (delayed Gratification) is Jannah"
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Faced with a choice, Wake up now or snooze the alarm; have a healthy meal or order a quick junk food; make a conscious choice to drink a lot of water or leave it to your body to remind; prepare for tomorrow or rush later & so on.
We either opt for a thing which gives us quick result...
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Four years olds were told that they can have a marshmallow that was on a plate in front of them but if they can wait a few minutes they will get a second one.
Years later, after the children had grown up, the researchers then went back to see how they were doing in the adult world. The chil...
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