Delay...............................

People watched the successful succeed and the unsuccessful fail for thousands and thousands of years.  We thought it over, and drew a conclusion:  The successful among us delay gratification.  The successful among us bargain with the future.  A great idea begins to emerge, taking ever-more-clearly-articulated form, in ever more-clearly-articulated stories:  What's the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful?  The successful sacrifice.

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules For Life:  An Antidote To Chaos