Temporal Discounting

"There's a human tendency to under- or over-estimate the value of a reward based on its temporal proximity [how soon we'll get a payoff for the effort]."

~ AsapSCIENCE

[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBwfZZvjKo&w=854&h=480]

See also:

• The Pomodoro Technique
• Want Never Goes Away