Delayed Gratification

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"# Delayed Gratification A kid sits alone in a room at Stanford. The year is 1968. On the table in front of them: one marshmallow. The deal is simple. Eat it now... or wait fifteen minutes and get two. Except Walter Mischel—who'd spent years studying how kids in Trinidad resisted temptation differently than kids in America—just designed a test that would follow these children for forty years. A test that would spark a debate still burning today about willpower... about poverty... and abou..."