A short YouTube clip by Siddharth Rajsekar summarizing the Stanford "marshmallow" experiment as evidence for the value of delayed gratification. The speaker describes how 4–5 year old children were offered a marshmallow and told if they waited 10 minutes they would receive a second one; researchers followed up about 25 years later and (according to the speaker) found that those who resisted temptation were more successful as adults.
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4–5 years old.
10 minutes.
About 25 years.
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See, if you truly want to make a difference and serve others, you should be okay with delayed gratification. There was a marshmallow test done by the Stanford University. It was a 25 year old experiment that you can also look on YouTube on the TED talks, where they got these kids who were 4 to 5 years old and they got them in a room with a camera where the kids did not know and they kept a marshmallow on the table and they told the child, I'm going to keep this marshmallow over here and if you're able to not eat this marshmallow for 10 minutes, I will give you another marshmallow. And it was an experiment that was done. It was a 25 year old experiment. So the kids that were 4 and 5 years old, they got different kids into the room. And there were some kids that were able to resist the temptation, and there were some children that could not resist the temptation. That means they just took the marshmallow and they ate it and they went back to that same child after 25 years and they audited the life of that particular child now as a grown up adult. And the result of that experiment was that those children who were able to resist temptation at a young age, they were more successful than those who succumbed to that temptation at a young age.