The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It

by Walter Mischel

think, therefore I can change what I am.”

If that leads to the question “But can I really change?,” I reply with what George Kelly said to his therapy clients when they kept asking him if they could get control of their lives. He looked straight into their eyes and said, “Would you like to?”

Mischel is internationally known as the creator of the Marshmallow Test, one of the most famous and important experiments in the history of psychology.