Joachim de Posada : Don't eat the marshmallow!

                               

TED 2009

Joachim de Posada : Don't eat the marshmallow! (transcript)

Summary

The ability to delay gratification is self-discipline that is the most important factor for success. You can test your ability from one experiment when you are four years old.

This experiment is done to test whether you can wait to eat a marshmallow for 15 minutes or not.

All kids who could wait for it were successful after 14 or 15 years later.

The kids who ate the marshmallow were in trouble. A few had good grades.  

You can understand it clearly. Why don't you teach it to your kids?

I think that I was a kid who had eaten the inside of the marshmallow! That kid will be successful though she should not go into banking or not work at a cash register.

I'm not working there and I'll walk forward to my success.

Words in this story
discipline / the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

debt / something, typically money, that is owed or due.