Dispelling the Myth of Deferred Gratification - Education Week - 1 views
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What worked best wasn't (in Mischel's words) "self-denial and grim determination," but doing something enjoyable while waiting so that self-control wasn't needed at all.
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precisely the opposite of the usual message that (a) self-control is a matter of individual character, which (b) we ought to help children develop.
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the ability to invent a distraction turned out to be correlated with plain old intelligence
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Interesting look at the marshmallow study on willpower and achievement.
