People today want fast food, sound bytes and instant gratification.

如今人们需要快餐，需要电台、电视台播放简短片断，还要即刻得到满足。

That is, long-term goals begin to suffer at the expense of instant gratification.

就这样，长远目标开始遭受即时满足的损耗。

There's a quality you shouldn't have a need for instant gratification.

有一种品质你不应该需要即时满足。

I needed to work towards my goals accepting that I may not get instant gratification.

我得努力朝目标前进，接受自己可能不会得到立即的满足感。

Our minds bounce from one distraction to the next, trapped in a vortex of distraction and instant gratification.

我们的大脑从一个分心事物跳到下一个分心事物，陷入分心和即时满足的漩涡中。

The point is to simply make the conscious effort to engage less and less in this type of instant gratification.

关键是要有意识逐渐减少从事这种及时满足的行为。

I'm lumping meditation in with this because it's a great way to deprogram this kind of anxious, instant gratification oriented brain.

我在这里提冥想，因为这是一个很好的方法，它能消除被焦虑和即时满足感所主导的大脑思维。

If you're so oriented around instant gratification, you can't really do the kind of work that's required to do real science.

如果你一味追求即时的满足感，那你无法完成真正的科学工作。

You are addicted to the instant gratification of unearned adulation from a group of perfect strangers you insist on referring to as your " Friends."

你沉迷于那些你称为" 好友" 但其实只是陌生人对你的谄媚，给你带来的本能的满足。

But we live in an age of instant gratification.

但我们生活在一个即时满足的时代。

This means that your present self prefers decisions that provide instant gratification.

这意味着现在的你更喜欢能立即带来满足的决定。

In short, the brain becomes wired to seek out instant gratification, and becomes less capable of pursuing long-term goals which require the willpower to delay gratification.

简言之，大脑变得寻求及时行乐，变得更不可能去追寻需意志力来延迟满足的长期目标了。

Now, you might be tempted to set relatively easy small goals, so you can check them off and fill that craving we all have for instant gratification.

而你可能会被诱惑去设定相对简单的小目标，这样你就可以把它们划掉，填补我们对即时满足的渴望。

But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification.

但是电视鼓励我们不付出任何努力。它卖给我们即时的满足感。

And we as humans, we are absolutely terrible at motivating ourselves to do things in service to our future selves because we're all obsessed with instant gratification.

而我们作为人类，我们绝对不擅长激励自己去做为未来的自己服务的事情，因为我们都沉迷于即时的满足感。

By reducing activity in the default mode network and posterior cingulate cortex, meditation can help diffuse that anxious, impatient, unfocused and instant gratification oriented mind that the internet helped create.

冥想通过减少默认网络和后扣带回皮质的活动能够帮助把上网造成的令人焦虑的、不耐烦、不专注、即时满足感所主导的思维都散去。

At first, like most things that require time when instant gratification is possible, he doesn't see the point of Henry's emails.

起初， 就像大多数需要时间才能得到即时满足的事情一样，他不明白亨利的电子邮件有什么意义。

People who have the ability to reject instant gratification in favor of something better, to follow actions by overcoming addictions, procrastination and laziness, to resist temptations and distractions, are more likely to attain aims and goals.

那些能够抵抗住一时满足的人，那些能够抵抗住诱惑、拖延、懒惰而继续行动的人，只有那些能够抵抗住诱惑的人才有可能取得他们的目标。

But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.

电视节目的多样化成了一种麻醉剂而不是促进思考的因素。

There's a comfort in that. And I like the instant gratification. I want to do what I want to do right now. The only thing I know of in life that can do that is drugs.

这是一种安慰。我喜欢即时的满足。我现在就想做我想做的事。据我所知，在生活中唯一能做到这一点的就是毒品。