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The Dam of Pleasure

If you want to use well your rational part of the brain, and apply delayed gratification, think about your ability to delay gratification as a dam.

  • If you keep it open, the river of minor pleasures passes in any instant under your gates, and you get used to it.
  • If you close it, the river will make the level of water grow, until it becomes a magnificent full dam. If you open then your gates, the pressure of the water will astonish you, as the pleasure you will get from the delay.

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