Joachim de Posada: Don't eat the marshmallow!
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Uploaded on Aug 10, 2009
http://www.ted.com In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.
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CilantroHater 3 years ago
My parents always bought identical snacks for my brother and me. My brother would always ask me to share mine with him first, with the promise that he would share his with me late. Of course, he would then eat his in secret.
If we were in this experiment together, I'd end up eating half a marshmallow while he has two and a half.
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Rasmus Nielsen 3 years ago
Thats funny. But i would like to see some facts about the children and their parents. Like a home income. I think that most of the "succesful" kids probibly had parents with a higher income than the "unsuccesful". For two resons. Parents with a high paying job usually have more time to raise their kids. And they also have the money to put their children through college. Just a thought.
Sorry for the broken english. Its bin a while since iv'e used english.
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Amber Gregory 1 week ago
This not only seems like poor science, but also *irrelevant* science, unless you are arrogant enough to think you really can measure successful living.
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Rebecca Gaut 1 week ago
coursera.org brought me here ....Go #CognativeCannibal
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Tiffany Tsao 3 months ago
LOL I'm not so affirmative about this method. My mom tested this approach on me and my bro when we were 4. I ate it but my bro didn't. And now, my bro is a police and I'm an intern. I have a great relationship with my teachers and my teammates, I serve as a leader. Well I still in love with marshmallow and I'll eat it up if you do the same method on me again.
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Cody Dodd 7 months ago
I love the comment about the national debt at the end. Very revealing parallel between how poor parenting is effecting the government.
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Luzangelasanchez97 7 months ago
You don't spell Colombia (South America) with the U!!!!
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Relativityblast 10 months ago
He mean't it in a cultural sense, the Stanford experiment dealt with America kids so he went to Columbia to see if delayed gratification had similar results. Those being academic success due to innate self control at an early age. One more note, for all of you non psychologists this experiment does not have anything to do with income. It is pure results of delayed gratification and the importance of self control. This may even apply to american obesity/...
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TesticularRainbows 1 year ago
From what I gather, it's along the lines of the fact that they're poor gives them less access to the right training/approach. Also, maybe since they're poor, they take what they can get *shrugs* =/
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guitarrahombre 1 year ago
did he explain why poor people wouldn't practice delay as much? i would think that poor people would be better because they can't afford to buy things they want.
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TesticularRainbows 1 year ago
Taken from an article in the New Yorker
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