WILLPOWER IS DESTINY
Decades of research results show the singular importance of will power in determining the course of life. One of the first of these was a small project in the 1960s in which kids from deprived homes were given special attention in a preschool program that helped them cultivate self-control, among other life skills. 5 That project had hoped to boost their IQ, but it failed at that. Still, years later, when those preschoolers were compared with similar kids who had not participated in the program, over the course of life they had lower rates of teen pregnancies, school dropouts, delinquency, and even days missed from work.6 The findings were a major argu ment for what has become the Head Start preschool programs, now found everywhere in the United States.
And then there was the "marshmallow test," a legendary study done by psychologist Walter Mischel at Stanford University in the 1970s. Mischel invited four-year-olds one by one into a "game room" at the Bing Nursery School on the Stanford campus. In the room the child was shown a tray with marshmallows or other treats and told to pick one she would like.
Then came the hard part. The experimenter told the child, "You can have your treat now, if you want. But if you don't eat
WILLPOWER IS DESTINY
Decades of research results show the singular importance of will power in determining the course of life. One of the first of these was a small project in the 1960s in which kids from deprived homes were given special attention in a preschool program that helped them cultivate self-control, among other life skills. 5 That project had hoped to boost their IQ, but it failed at that. Still, years later, when those preschoolers were compared with similar kids who had not participated in the program, over the course of life they had lower rates of teen pregnancies, school dropouts, delinquency, and even days missed from work.6 The findings were a major argu ment for what has become the Head Start preschool programs, now found everywhere in the United States.
And then there was the "marshmallow test," a legendary study done by psychologist Walter Mischel at Stanford University in the 1970s. Mischel invited four-year-olds one by one into a "game room" at the Bing Nursery School on the Stanford campus. In the room the child was shown a tray with marshmallows or other treats and told to pick one she would like.
Then came the hard part. The experimenter told the child, "You can have your treat now, if you want. But if you don't eat
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