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'''Delayed gratification''' is "the process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with"<ref>[[M. Scott Peck]], ''The Road Less Traveled'' (1978), p. 18; cited by [[Rick Ezell] in ''The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People'', p. 142 </ref>
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