How to Stop Needing Instant Gratification

Kim G.
4 min readMar 29, 2019

“The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential” — Michael Dooley

Instant gratification feels good. It’s really difficult to turn off the switch in our brains that fiends for that incredibly satisfying feeling.

And there really is a switch, too (of sorts). This article by Dr. Shahram Heshmat talks about ten psychological reasons we…

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Kim G.

UK Copywriter. ATL Screenwriter. Everywhere content writer. Hatha Yoga teacher.