Would You Rather Have Ten Dollars Now or 30 Dollars in Three Weeks?

People who experience gratitude are more willing to exercise for better health, save their money rather than spend it on impulse bies and work harder for long term goals. David de steno devised an experiment to see whether people could be nice to their future selves in the face of a tempting reward. When we made people feel grateful suddenly, how much they discounted the future, how impatient they were to get that money in their hands changed these folksSuddenly viewed a hundred dollars in a year, not as worth 17 dollars now, but as worth 30 dollars. Just by changing the emotional state you're in, how much you value the future, change it.