The Marshmallow Test | Rabbi David Sutton

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foreign [Music] there's a fascinating experiment that was done by a research psychologist called the marshmallow test they experimented with about 50 young children around the age of five and they put them in a room alone with a video on and they placed a marshmallow on the table they told the children you have a choice you can either take one marshmallow now you can either take one marshmallow now or wait 60 seconds and get two marshmallows they put them in the room and they close the door and you see some of them pop the marshmallow in their mouth immediately some of them start whistling a song some of them start biting their fingers one of them licks it is sniffs it in all different ways that the children react over these 60-second weight they come back 12 13 years later these children have graduated high school there might be a middle of college and they find that lo and behold the

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