Kids & the Marshmallow Test - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Dec 16, 2009
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This is another version of Walter Mischel's marshmallow experiment-- in the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
- Tom Stocky
There was an article about this in the New Yorker a few months ago: http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
- Tom Stocky
Very telling. I heard a wise piece of advice once that said (paraphrasing) - The key to living a happy, content life is to delay gratification.
- Shey
But how can I live a gratified life?
- Andrew C (✔)
Delay gratification. Not indulge or forgo gratification.
- Shey
TED talk -http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Mustafa Burak Su
Torture?
- Bülent Kıyışkan
What if you think marshmallows are kind of gross? Does that make you really smart? I hope so :)
- Joel Webber
You thought at age 6 that marshmallows were kind of gross?
- Melinda Owens
The girl in the TED Talk is hilarious.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira - This girl was hilarious, I was laughing so hard that I had tears in my eyes ;-)
- joergkurtwegner