The Marshmallow Test
Did you know that a more accurate predictor of high SAT scores (and success later in life) is not an IQ test? Rather, it's the marshmallow test. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW1vpz1ybo and see children struggle with the choice: one marshmallow now or (if they wait until the researcher returns to the room) two marshmallows later.
Those children who could delay gratification in this test when they were four or five, performed better in high school and scored higher on their SATs. Regardless of their respective I.Q. scores.
And the differences follow subjects into adulthood. The original children in the study are now in their early 40s - and those who could resist the marshmallow when they were young are more successful and have achieved more than those who could not.
Did you know that a more accurate predictor of high SAT scores (and success later in life) is not an IQ test? Rather, it's the marshmallow test. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW1vpz1ybo and see children struggle with the choice: one marshmallow now or (if they wait until the researcher returns to the room) two marshmallows later.
Those children who could delay gratification in this test when they were four or five, performed better in high school and scored higher on their SATs. Regardless of their respective I.Q. scores.
And the differences follow subjects into adulthood. The original children in the study are now in their early 40s - and those who could resist the marshmallow when they were young are more successful and have achieved more than those who could not.
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