What is cheap pleasure?
The reason why it is called cheap is not to devalue this pleasure. Rather, the cost of obtaining this happiness is relatively low. However, you'll find that when someone asks you "what's the happiest thing you've ever experienced so far", you're almost unlikely to answer "I took a sip of milk tea" and will answer some expensive pleasures.
What is an expensive pleasure? Precisely the opposite of cheap pleasures are those that you have to pay more to obtain.
Like, being a great doctor. To achieve this happiness, you have to pay a very high price. You have to spend a lot of time studying, experimenting, and practicing. You have to take the time when everyone else is playing games and brushing up on ** to read those heavenly books. You have to put money into it at an age when your classmates in middle school have already started to make money.
Another example is to be a successful entrepreneur. On this road, you will meet many, many opponents, incomprehension from relatives and friends, and countless grievances. Even in the end, the outcome that awaits you is not success, but failure.
That's the expensive pleasure. Cheap pleasures, though short-lived, are easy to obtain, and even genes want you to get. Expensive pleasures, while powerful and can give you a great sense of fulfillment, have to pay a very high cost for it.
This leads to a very interesting result: self-discipline is really hard.
Self-discipline is anti-human.
Why do you want to run to the mountains to find yourself uncomfortable, I'd better lie at home. How boring it is to gnaw on those heavenly books, I'd better brush up on the short **. Why work so hard, I'd better watch the game first.
The genes will keep telling you to choose the cheaper pleasures. Pick it, pick it, pick it.
So, if you want to achieve something in life that you want, you have to fight against your genes.
How to fight it? At this point, you need an ability to delay gratification. February** Dynamic Incentive Program