Wisdom by Stephen S. Hall

Author:Stephen S. Hall [Hall, Stephen S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0307269108
Amazon: B0036S4DFQ
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-03-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

PATIENCE

Temptation, Delayed Gratification, and the Biology of Learning to Wait for Larger Rewards

The ego isn’t an organ that might sit in a central place like Descartes’s pineal-based soul. It’s a network server, a broker of cooperation among the interests, and like interests, is itself engendered and shaped by differential reward—specifically, by the long-range reward that comes from better defense against short-range rewards.

—George Ainslie, Breakdown of Will

Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us?

—Odysseus, in Homer, Odyssey

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