Master Program

[KURAUKING]

Alloo sister, tis is not copy and paste ok, i need time to type one leeh and i oni use 1 finger to typr hor......

gneleey Wrote:apa cakap? didn't answer my question also...

[KURAUKING]

OK, 1st thesis.....



Write on the subject "What and How ppl react in this financial crisis" from the angle of an observant.

[wlmak]

thesis? any word count limitation? can reply with short answer?

[gneleey]

need to write thesis meh??? sigh...i thot go pratical tim...

[KURAUKING]

Mak, no word limit but the more point you contribute, the more you'll learn....


Gne, dun be lazy laa, you'll benefit from this......

[KURAUKING]

Ok, 2nd thesis......



After you have wrote on the subject "What and How ppl react in this financial crisis", write on "What does 'Delayed Gratification' meant to you~???"

Reference :-
Deferred gratification or delayed gratification is the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. This ability is usually considered to be a personality trait which is important for life success. Daniel Goleman has suggested that it is an important component of emotional intelligence. People who lack this trait are said to need instant gratification and may suffer from poor impulse control.

Psychoanalysts have argued that people with poor impulse control suffer from "weak ego boundaries". The term comes from Sigmund Freud's theory of personality where the id is the pleasure principle, the superego is the morality principle, and the ego is the reality principle. The ego's job is to satisfy the needs of the id while respecting other people's needs. According to this theory, a person who is unable to delay gratification may possess an unbalanced id that the ego and superego are unable to control.

Poor impulse control may be related to biological factors in the brain. Researchers have found that children with fetal alcohol syndrome are less able to delay gratification.[1]

The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s a group of four-year olds were tested by being given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.[2]

Another famous impulse control test is the "gift delay," in which children were shown a nicely wrapped gift but told they must complete a puzzle before opening it. Researchers then calculated a "delay score" based on how long the kids hold out. When independent examiners interviewed the test subject years later, they found that boys who had not delayed were "irritable" and that the girls were "sulky." In contrast, the patient boys were "attentive" and the girls "competent." [3]

Currently, a free self-report Delaying Gratification Inventory[4] is available online as a part of a research project conducted by Central Michigan University. The survey describes trait differences in the tendency to delay gratification along six categories as well as a global domain. The survey provides custom personality feedback on this trait.


Source :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gratification

[wlmak]

What and how ppl react in this financial crisis from an observant perspective:
1. scold the h**l out of the govertment
2. scold the h**l out of the boss on not given good pay raise
3. depress.. depress on money not enough
4. tell themselves to spend less on non essential
5. Buy 4D, lottery, gamble hope to get extra

Delayed Gratification - you wait.. wait and wait.... you think you want it, but you just wait for the right time that you think will come, but you not sure when it will comes, if it doen't comes you blame on others but then you keep waiting.. the first step is always very hard.. so you wait.. you want a 5K salary but since you already earning 4K, you just afraid to loose it, so you prefer to wait, as you believe there sure will be a chance for you to get that 5K one day.. and the whole waiting process are in repetition....................

KK, what is my score?

[wlmak]

to be honest.. i have this Deferred gratification or delayed gratification somewhere inside me.... somewhere in there.. there..... there lah..

[KURAUKING]

Mak, i think you have describe the word "Procrastinate" instead of the word "Delayed Gratification"......

[wlmak]

ok ok.. then let me do more research on Deferred gratification or delayed gratification