56. People's ability to delay gratification (or not) starts young

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Walter Mischel did experiments in the 60s and 70s on delayed gratification and found that children who were able to delay gratification grew up to do better in school and other areas of their life as opposed to the children who could not delay gratification. Click on the marshmallow test video and see if you would be able to delay gratification (or not).
The Marshmallow Test (Embed)
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