…ons regarding whether both gratification delay and outcomes could be the product of other factors.” For example, are children who wait longer for a marshmallow also from wealthier families, and could that be the reason they perform better in school?
In other words, a reactive person is at the mercy of urgency and outside influence. Because the feeling of urgency often trumps the feeling of importance, many of us spend our days stuck in an endless loop of:
…e abyss to understand the fallacy in that — this world is not just. It is unjust. It is imbalanced. Ask anyone who’s been dealt a bad hand disproportionate to the cards they’ve dealt others. And so, rather than interpret Karma as a system of debits and credits, we must realize that it is merely the inputs themselves, and the way they wash over the rest of the world.