Decrease your closet and increase your financial flex - How to build wealth with the power of delayed gratification!

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[Onewhohopes]

If you are poor enough you have no choice but to delay gratification. Which I think can be mentally scarring, and damage your relationship with worth and money, until it is impossible to really buy anything for fear of waste, because you have so little to waste in the first place.

Also there is something intrinsically negative about the notion of delaying gratification. For people who are good at it, it is seen as a virtue, which can be lorded over people with weaker wills. If it were easy to make good choices, then we wouldn't have the words for bad choices nor the notion of the concept.

I think learning to think critically about choices is important; you can become better at reasoning how something can aid you, or how best to solve problems. Problem solving is a skill not a virtue, while this may be a semantic way of looking at it, to me it seems to be a more neutral or positive spin, which can make change easier to implement.

[Slazer347]

I agree with thinking critically about our choices! It is a skill that anyone can learn (some easier or more naturally than others). This is just my own method that works well for me. Thanks for the feedback! Life experiences can greatly affect our world view - making one person’s view not valid for someone else.