Last week at our teacher professional day, I was in a section that was talking about gifted learning and we watched a video on "The Marshmallow Test" then this past weekend I was at One Day University at the Cleveland Art Museum then listening to a talk on resilience - then again the same video - actually twice in one week.
What I found amazing was how the video showed up in two different places on two different topics but had a very profound affect on the talks.
The original video is copyrighted - but I was able to get a version of it here --> www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/us/marshmallow-test/index.html
On my professional development day - the ideas was that the students who wait for the person to come back in the room --> in follow up studies, were better students, higher gpa and higher SAT
On the talk Dr. Andrew Shatte gave on Saturday --> he equated to a much bigger picture - impulse control --> which leads to greater resilience (grit). Both are arguing the same point - delayed gratification. I gave a condense version of the talk Andrew gave on Saturday but it is still a good one. Also here is an short article from US News about this same thing
How does that apply to you? Would you been able to wait it out for the interview to come back as a 6 year old or would you have eaten the marshmallow. How does it correlate to today temptations - instead of marshmallow - your cell phone, sending money, going out - the list goes on.
:Can you see any connection in your own life. Is it too late to change if you would have taken the marshmallow? Just some ideas.