Secrets of Self-Control
For those of you who haven’t heard of the “marshmallow test” (I hadn’t before this morning) you’re going to a kick out of the short video clip at the end of this post.
The marshmallow test was a psychological experiment that some Stanford professors dreamed up in the 1960s. Here’s how it went: Kids were left alone in a room with one marshmallow. They were told they could eat it, but that if they could wait and not eat it until the researcher returned they’d actually get a second marshmallow.
In a fascinating follow-up, The New Yorker found that now—40 odd years later—the kids who were able to delay gratification have become more successful adults.
We highly recommend the video (for laughs) and The New Yorker article (for an interesting look at the psychology of self-control).
Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.
