The marshmallow test why self-control is the engine of success
"A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Little, Brown and Company trade paperback edition, September 2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- In Stanford University's Surprise Room
- How they do it
- Thinking hot and cool
- The roots of self-control
- The best-laid plans
- Idle grasshoppers and busy ants
- Is it prewired? : the new genetics
- The engine of success : 'I think I can!"
- Your future self
- Beyond the here and now
- Protecting the hurt self : self-distancing
- Cooling painful emotions
- The psychological immune system
- When smart people act stupid
- If-then signatures of personality
- The paralyzed will
- Will fatigue
- Marshmallows and public policy
- Applying core strategies
- Human nature.
