Pleasures vs. Gratifications

Since I had never thought about the difference between pleasures and gratifications, it was fresh for me to think about my own current gratifications, and I enjoyed listening to Chisato and Atsuko's ones. Chisato's gratitude were to play the instrument in LAMBS and to deal with assignments, and Atsuko's was to solve mathematical problems. Sharing our current gratification is our life in the discussion, I though that maybe gratification requires not only thinking and skills but also efforts. We need to practice hard to play the instrument. We need to put our efforts to solve mathematical problems.

This has somthing to do with the little kids in the video below. Do you know the Marshmallow Experiment?
In the test, children were taken to the room where there are only table and chairs, and they were told, "I'll give you this (one) marshmallow to you. I have to go because I have some works to do, but if you can wait until I come back without eating the marshmallow, I'll give you another." The children were offered two choices. Satisfy desire(eat the marshmallow) right now or wait longer and get the rewards.
It is said that about one-third of the children could wait and got 2 marshmallows. I'm sure that these children put a lot of efforts not to eat the marshmallows!!


P.S.
My gratifications are, doing gymnastics and sewing.
I noticed that these activities help reduce my stress as well. Though we are busy dealing with a lot of tasks, we should make time to do something we can get gratification from!