[charlie0]

> And the ones who failed through school and barely made it through community college have successful small businesses because they were charting their own path the whole time.

By definition, it sounds like these folk were able to delay gratification quite well.

[haliskerbas]

Maybe it depends on how you look at it? If gratification is "working on my side project instead of finishing homework due tomorrow" then it wasn't delayed much, they were gratified the whole dang time!