Instant Gratification Percentage

At Academy M, we have discovered an inherited linked between a person's hyper-millennialism and instant-gratification. Using the Millennial Curve Evaluation, we have not only been able to successfully to calculate the different levels of a person's millennial behavior, but using a simple reverse mathematical formula we have also discovered how to calculate a person's propensity toward instant gratification. Using a process we call Peeling, we can determine what we call Instant Gratification Percentage (or IGP for short). IGP is a the estimated percentage of how often a person will choose instant gratification over delayed gratification. To demonstrate how this approach works in helping to increase between productivity, engagement and communication between peers and people from different generations and cultural backgrounds, we have complied the same examples from the home page below.

How To Calculate IGP

To calculate a person's IGP using the Millennial Curve Evaluation, use the following formula:

TEP ÷ TPA = IGP

(Total Experience Score / Total Points Available = Instant Gratification Percentage )

Using the above formula, anyone who takes the Millennial Curve can calculate their IGP and discover how prone their are to making decisions based on instant gratification.

Instant Gratification Vs Delayed Gratification

Overall, instant gratification by itself is not a problem. It only becomes a liability when it in-appropriately becomes the default guide on how majority of decisions are made in a persons life. Those who struggle with controlling their impulses for instant gratification also may suffer from deeply developed issues with trust. According research reported by Psychology Today;

"A lifetime of learning not to trust others to deliver what they promise in the future (e.g., growing up with a sense of total helplessness) may play a role in one’s resistance to delaying gratification. Similarly, the short duration and uncertainty of life influence our time preference. Poor health especially is an indicator of mortality, and therefore increases one’s uncertainty about whether a future reward will be received."

Academy M believes he positive affects associated with practicing delayed gratification could be held in helping Millennials to improve their fluid intelligence. According recent studies, higher intelligence is associated with a more future-focused tendency. Future planning involves the executive brain, which is linked to intelligence through the function of the prefrontal cortex. Children with higher intelligence tend to be better at shifting attention away from the affective properties of rewards. This explains why individuals with lower intelligence may be more prone to financial hardship, and tend to have lower levels of financial asset accumulation.