Walter Mischel
Born
in Vienna, Austria
February 22, 1930
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“This is encouraging evidence of the power of the environment to influence characteristics like intelligence. Even if traits like intelligence have large genetic determinants, they are still substantially malleable.”
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
“The idiosyncrasies of human preferences seem to reflect a competition between the impetuous limbic grasshopper and the provident prefrontal ant within each of us.”
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
“In the human body, each of approximately a trillion cells holds within its nucleus a complete and identical sequence of DNA. That is about 1.5 gigabytes of genetic information, and it would fill two CD-ROMs, yet the DNA sequence itself would fit on the point of a well-sharpened pencil.”
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
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