My Favorite Six Excerpts from The Marshmallow Test
Delaying immediate gratification is an acquirable cognitive skill
The Marshmallow Test conducted originally by Stanford Professor of Psychology, Walter Mischel, is one of the most famous experiments on delayed gratification. His premise was that “the ability to delay immediate gratification for the sake of future consequences is an acquirable cognitive skill.”
This experiment has been replicated many times throughout d…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to 24Hour Journal to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.