What Super Bowl Ads Reveal About Modern Society. But You Already Knew
Society chases quick fixes. Be the patient edge instead.
The Super Bowl ads results are in, here is what we saw:
AI everything.
Gambling apps.
Crypto promises.
Weight loss drugs.
They feel less like advertising and more like a mirror held up to everything broken in our society. And I’m not even pointing to the obvious commercials that proved this with files and dogs.
Let’s take a step back and not focus on the products they sell but on the idea that you can get everything you want, instantly, without putting in any effort on your side.
You don’t think so? Keep reading.
What Do Super Bowl Ads Reveal About Modern Culture?
Super Bowl ads expose our collective obsession with instant results and minimal effort.
This year’s lineup made it crystal clear: we’ve built an entire economy around shortcuts.
AI that will do your work
Weight loss without discipline
Betting platforms for quick wins
Crypto brokers for instant wealth
Why wait and work when you can have everything now without any effort?
How Can You Take Advantage of this Instant Gratification Culture?
Things worth having cannot be bought. They must be earned.
Naval Ravikant nailed it when he said:
”A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought—they must be earned.”
None of that fits in a 30-second spot. None can be gambled, medicated, or automated.
We live in a culture of instant everything:
Shortcuts
Cheap hits
Quick wins
Everyone chases instant gratification, but here’s what they miss: the moments that truly matter in life are the ones that cost you some effort.
Learning a language costs time. Finishing your education costs dedication. Building a business costs patience and discipline. The hard-won achievements in life require work.
Almost nobody is looking there. They’re too distracted by the constant stream of easy dopamine.
This is your advantage. Committing to the hard, slow, meaningful work will separate yourself from 95% of people.
The things worth having always cost something. They’re worth having precisely because they’re inseparable from the process of becoming the kind of person who possesses them.
What Happens When You Think Long-Term Instead of Short-Term?
You start playing a completely different game. One where most competition can’t even see the field.
Think of it like this: Short-Term thinkers are like rabbits, nose in the grass, only seeing what’s directly in front of them. Long-Term thinkers are like eagles, circling high above, watching the entire valley unfold.
The rabbit sees threats everywhere because its view extends a few feet. You see the whole field. Your plans look nothing like theirs.
By adopting a different mentality, you’ll start to see wins and setbacks with a completely different perspective. Suddenly the goals that you haven’t hit yet are just bumps in the road when you’re building for a decade.
Master delayed gratification and you’ve unlocked something borderline unfair. While everyone else bets on instant wins and pops pills for quick fixes, you’re building something that compounds over time.
This is what Bill Gates meant when he said we overestimate what we can do in one year but underestimate what we can do in ten.
Your writing sharpens word by word. Your expertise grows project by project. Five years from now, you’ll be exactly where you planned.
Won’t make a flashy Super Bowl ad. But it’ll serve you well while everyone else is still wondering why nothing ever works.
Change Your Mentality and Win
Those Super Bowl ads aren’t reflecting you. They’re reflecting the majority.
Build for the long term. Develop the patience to earn what you want instead of gambling, medicating, or hacking your way there.
You’re playing a different game now. Time is your advantage. Delayed gratification is your weapon.
That’s how you win while everyone else chases the nearest shiny thing.
Based and every word is true. Those 95% are cooked and not reachable.