The Marshmallow Test: Can You Wait For Two? (Areté +1 #256)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Arete One degree. This is another micro chapter from our new book activate youe heroic potential.451 of my all time favorite ideas. This is another chapter from Little Microchapter from our fifth objective on self mastery. It's called the Marshmallow Test. Can you wait for two? Walter Mischel is one of the world's leading researchers on the science of willpower. You may be familiar with his classic study called the Marshmallow Test. Here's the quick story. Preschool kids are brought into a simple little room. An adult tells the child that they're going to leave the room for a bit and that she can have one treat, a marshmallow or pretzel or other treat now. Or if she can wait a little while, she can have two treats when the adult comes back into the room. Then the adult leaves the room and the researchers watch the kids behind a one way mirror to see what they do. Some kids immediately go for the one treat while others make it through the 20 minutes to get their two treats. But here's the fascinating part of the study. Michel and his team followed those preschool kids for decades after that simple widow experiment. And to their surprise, the children's low or high delay abilities as a preschooler predicted everything from their SAT scores as an adolescent to their bmi index at 30 years old. Wow. We need to know two things. One, willpower is the master aptitude. It's the greatest predictor of all the things we want more of in our lives. And number two, it's malleable. We just need to practice building it. Good news. That's basically what we're doing with all these +1 degrees. P.S. let's remember sometimes, of course, going for that one marshmallow now is the wise and enjoyable thing to do. But we want to have the self control to wait for two when that's the optimal approach. Here's to plus one degreeing your willpower, discipline, self mastery a little more today and enjoying all the treats along the way. I hope you enjoyed that. Arete One degree from my new book Arete Activate your heroic potential. The book will be shipped on November 14th right before black Friday. In time to make it the perfect holiday gift perhaps. I wanted to let you know that we have some special giveaways if you think you might like to pre order the book and even more goodies if you think you might want to give the book away this holiday season. Here's the deal. Pre order one copy and get a free advanced reader copy of the ebook today. Pre order three copies and get a free advanced copy of the ebook and the audiobook and a limited edition Arete Coin that we'll send to you. Pre order 10 copies of the book. Bless you and get all of that plus an autographed advanced Hardcover reader copy sent to you immediately inside the fancy Arete VIP box, which is packed with other goodies including this Arete T shirt, a Heroic t shirt and 10 free annual heroic memberships for your gift recipients. You'd be able to give them a book and and a year's worth of Heroic 4 Free. If you pre order 25 copies, you'll get all that plus a free ticket to our launch event party in Austin November 10th through 12th and you'll get a personal voice memo thank you. And a high five from me if you're feeling inspired to order over 50 copies of the book. We've been blessed to have a lot of CEOs and corporations do that. We'll give you a huge discount. Just let us know all of this. You can learn more about at Heroic U.S. book Heroic U.S. book of course you can order the book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. Independent bookstores will be everywhere. You can buy a book, Hudson's airport stores, etc. And let us know of course when you've done that and purchased a copy or three or ten or more if you feel inspired to do so at Heroic Us Book. I appreciate you and I hope you love the book. I'm super excited about it, super proud of it, and I hope it helps you and your families transform your lives.