4V Delayed Gratification? What's That?

Delayed Gratification: the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward.





Willpower: 1) the strengths of will to carry out one's decisions, wishes, or plans.



                   2) the ability to control oneself and determine one's actions.
Metacognition: awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes.

 

What is delayed gratification? Basically it is just self-control, holding out on temptation for a greater reward. Delayed gratification is important because it helps you realize and teaches you that waiting for something, instead of just settling for what’s easier is the smarter choice because it helps to teach and define self-control which is an important trait to have going through life.

Willpower, which is the ability to carry out one’s desires, and metacognition, thinking about thinking, also go along with delayed gratification. Willpower helps a person to resist the temptations of taking the road where you won’t face that hard of a challenge, and metacognition allows the person to think a situation through more carefully and help them to come to the conclusion that the reward for waiting is greater than settling for what is convenient.