Great topic. It reminded me of Oscar Wilde's quote: "I can resist anything except temptation" and John Maynard Keynes' quote: "In the long run we are all dead.", so I suppose I am a bad influence :)
An interesting fact about the marshmallow experiment. It was found out that it was flowed and didn't actually prove what it was claiming to prove. It had been conducted with just 90 children, all from the Stanford University preschool, the new study tried to reproduce the same results with 900 children from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The new results (2018) indicate that socioeconomics was the determining factor behind delayed gratification and later success in life.
Great topic. It reminded me of Oscar Wilde's quote: "I can resist anything except temptation" and John Maynard Keynes' quote: "In the long run we are all dead.", so I suppose I am a bad influence :)
An interesting fact about the marshmallow experiment. It was found out that it was flowed and didn't actually prove what it was claiming to prove. It had been conducted with just 90 children, all from the Stanford University preschool, the new study tried to reproduce the same results with 900 children from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The new results (2018) indicate that socioeconomics was the determining factor behind delayed gratification and later success in life.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618761661
Thank you, Alena. This makes me feel better about being unable to resist marshmallows!
Do you ever finish Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow :)
Ha! No, it got destroyed in the flood…
This absolutely resonates and it’s something that has actually been front of mind for me a lot recently!