The Marshmallow Effect: The idea of sacrifice
The modern usage of the idea of sacrifice . . everyone understands the motif.. it's that if you want to make things better . . in the future . . then you should make sacrifices in the present . . and maybe you even do that multi-generationally . everyone understands that . . and it's part of being responsible and mature . . and you do that for yourself too if you're disciplined . . in fact that's almost what discipline means . . discipline means that you're capable of making sacrifices . . because you're not disciplined if you just do something you want more rather than something that you have to do . discipline is when you want to do something right now . . and instead you think no I'm going to forestall my gratification . and you concentrate on something that you think will bear fruit . . in the medium to long run . . and so you look into the future . . and you decide that by making tod...