AEE 328: Why Delayed Gratification Shouldn't Scare You

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 3 28.
0:04.0	Why Delayed Gratification Shouldn't scare you.
0:08.0	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast
0:12.0	downloaded more than 10 million times.
0:15.2	We believe in connection, not perfection, with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl,
0:27.8	coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA.
0:35.1	In today's episode, we'll talk about delayed gratification versus instant gratification and
0:40.6	how you can use this insight for a better life in the future.
0:44.0	Hey Michelle, welcome to a wisdom Wednesday.
0:50.0	How you doing? I'm good, Lindsay. Hey Michelle, welcome to a Wisdom Wednesday.
0:52.8	How you doing?
0:53.8	I'm good, Lindsay, how are you?
0:56.0	Good, good, good.
0:57.1	Today, Michelle, I want to talk about this concept of delayed gratification and how we could help our
1:04.0	our listeners learn English, become fluent in English and also to have just generally
1:09.0	a better life. Wow big topic right? definitely. I like it. You like it? Yeah, I mean delayed gratification
1:17.5	First of all, what is gratification? It's like kind of like satisfaction in a way like like you know being happy or right being
1:27.1	seeing kind of being happy or seeing results right right exactly like being satisfied
1:32.0	because you're getting results that's what I would say.
1:34.0	Yeah, and delayed means what it means. To put something off in time.
1:38.6	Yeah, it comes later. It doesn't come immediate. I think we live, Michelle, in this culture where we want the opposite of delayed
1:44.8	gratification which is instant gratification, right? Right, right, yeah, of course, like our society,
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