The Marshmallow Test (cont.)

TW: Here the marshmallow test implications are expanded. And below a great article from the New Yorker which speaks to the predictive value of the test for kids. The test subjects were tracked for years, those with the discipline to wait ended up with higher earnings later in life...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer
again h/t reader CM