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 Some folks are deliberate & patient; others are more impulsive.  Anyone with 2 kids or more can likely attest.  I'm not sure the spectrum is a matter of belief unless you're in an extremely thick bubble of human isolation! 🤣 
 I meant more that it can be difficult to tell if a particular choice/decision is a "high time-preference" thing or not, but our little Bitcoin bubble has grown to label acts we approve of as "low time-preference".

For instance: 
Is getting married high or low time-preference? Well, that depends. What were the alternatives and was it a good match? 
 Any answer about time preference can really only come from within, eg. Only the ones who were married can answer.  But you're right, bitcoiners do tend to misuse it as a kind of synthetic "I'm more zoomed out than you" argument 🙄