That prefrontal executive system, in contrast, "cools the hot," by suppressing the impulse to grab, and reappraising the tempta tion itself (it's also fattening). You (or your four-year-old) can acti vate this system by thinking about, for example, the shape of the marshmallow, or its color, or how it's made. This switch in focus lowers the energy charge to grab for it.
Just as he suggested for Cookie Monster, in his experiments at Stanford Mischel helped some of the kids out with a simple mental trick: he taught them to imagine that the candy is just a picture with a frame around it. Suddenly that irresistible hunk of sugar that loomed so large in their mind became something they could pre tend was not real, something they could focus on or not. Changing their relationship to the marshmallow was a bit of mental judo that let kids who hadn't been able to delay their grab for the sweet more than one minute deftly resist temptation for fifteen.
Such cognitive control of impulse bodes well in life. As Mischel puts it, "If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the SAT instead of watching television. And you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about the marshmallow."
Intentional distractions, cognitive reappraisal, and other meta cognitive strategies entered psychology's playbook in the 1970s. But similar mental maneuvers were deployed long ago by those fifth century monks as they contemplated the body's "loathsome" parts.
A tale from those days has it that one of these monks is walking along when a gorgeous woman comes running by.19 That morning she had a heated quarrel with her husband and she's now fleeing to her parents' house.
A few minutes later, her husband, in pursuit, shows up and asks the monk, "Venerable sir, did you by any chance see a woman go by?"
And the monk answers, "Man or woman, I cannot say. But a bag fbones passed this way."
That prefrontal executive system, in contrast, "cools the hot," by suppressing the impulse to grab, and reappraising the tempta tion itself (it's also fattening). You (or your four-year-old) can acti vate this system by thinking about, for example, the shape of the marshmallow, or its color, or how it's made. This switch in focus lowers the energy charge to grab for it.
Just as he suggested for Cookie Monster, in his experiments at Stanford Mischel helped some of the kids out with a simple mental trick: he taught them to imagine that the candy is just a picture with a frame around it. Suddenly that irresistible hunk of sugar that loomed so large in their mind became something they could pre tend was not real, something they could focus on or not. Changing their relationship to the marshmallow was a bit of mental judo that let kids who hadn't been able to delay their grab for the sweet more than one minute deftly resist temptation for fifteen.
Such cognitive control of impulse bodes well in life. As Mischel puts it, "If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the SAT instead of watching television. And you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about the marshmallow."
Intentional distractions, cognitive reappraisal, and other meta cognitive strategies entered psychology's playbook in the 1970s. But similar mental maneuvers were deployed long ago by those fifth century monks as they contemplated the body's "loathsome" parts.
A tale from those days has it that one of these monks is walking along when a gorgeous woman comes running by.19 That morning she had a heated quarrel with her husband and she's now fleeing to her parents' house.
A few minutes later, her husband, in pursuit, shows up and asks the monk, "Venerable sir, did you by any chance see a woman go by?"
And the monk answers, "Man or woman, I cannot say. But a bag fbones passed this way."
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