"instant gratification" is a very common topic ourdays. It mean, you expect your gratification instantly or at least as fast as possible. If you buy something, you wnat to have it delivered as fast as possible.
What ever you do, you want your feedback immedeatly and you want it to be positive.
That causes some problems in todays society. Eating is a form an instant gratification. Programming might be, Surfing the net for facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. go there and you may get, what you want. But this lifestyle get in your way of almost any progress. Sitting down and working hard? Try and fail, try again and fail better? work hard and work long for real progress... how does that fit into "instant gratification".
Why do people go to the gym on a regular basis? Why do they take the effort to learn playing, learning an instrument, a new skill, even a new language? You may think, the people who do that are a completle differne bread of humans. Differently wired, having different brain functionallity?
If it were so, what were the "instant gratificators" doing in former times? They were finding there own gratification system. If you enjoy talking to people, having a discussion is a gratification in itself. If you are happy with numbers, you may figure out a way to display your progress in charts und numbers or success-points.
If you want to implement your own gratification system, by very careful else it may backfire... your communication for the cheer porpuse of discussion without getting anywhere. You may collect data, you may write report etc. simply because you enjoy doing so without getting you much foreward in what direction ever.
On the other hand, if you only monitor your progress, your activity may becomm obcessive. Your have to put in more and more effort to make progress. You cut out of (important) activites that do not help you to progress in that certain field. You overtrain, you overwork, you burn out.
