If you eat all your seeds and save none to plant, you’ll starve next year.
If you have the ability to endure hardship AND a driving ambition, you’ll easily delay gratification.
Do you need instant gratification, or can you delay it?
Donna Janesky
9 years ago
I love the famous experiment with small children where they leave the child alone in a room with a marshmallow. The children are told they could eat it right a way, or, if they can wait five minutes, they will get two marshmallows. The ensuing videos are priceless. Some can’t wait and eat their marshmallow as soon as the interviewer leaves the room. Others fidget around and eat it in a few minutes. But those that can wait were followed for many years, and turned out to be the most successful of all the children studied.
I love the famous experiment with small children where they leave the child alone in a room with a marshmallow. The children are told they could eat it right a way, or, if they can wait five minutes, they will get two marshmallows. The ensuing videos are priceless. Some can’t wait and eat their marshmallow as soon as the interviewer leaves the room. Others fidget around and eat it in a few minutes. But those that can wait were followed for many years, and turned out to be the most successful of all the children studied.