There's a lot of research over the last, say, 60 years on delay of gratification. This plays out in the famous Marshmallow task where four-year-old children are given the following choice. The lesson that I have always taken away from that is children who are able to delay gratification for a bigger payout later will apply that same tendency to other things like education and savings.
What’s the difference between people who preserve special things and people who devour them right away? Why do we love to binge-watch? And did Adam really eat an apple?