Tomorrow vs. Today Stanford professor Walter Mischel studied delayed gratification, offering children a small reward: one marshmallow—or two marshmallows, if they didn’t eat the first one after being left alone with it. The study tracked the kids, and those with the discipline to leave the first marshmallow alone were more successful later in life. Our education system and culture focus on getting kids to be little gratification delayers. Few parents scream at their kids, “I need you to be more in the moment!” But as we get older, and encounter more x factor, we start wondering, “Why am I so
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