The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success
by Walter Mischel
In this groundbreaking psychology book, The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success, Dr. Walter Mischel draws on decades of research and life examples to explore the nature of willpower, identifying the cognitive skills and mental mechanisms that enable it and showing how these can be applied to challenges in everyday life; from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement.
The choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, have profound effects and The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think.
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“The marshmallow test is one of psychology’s greatest experiments, conducted by one of the twentieth century’s greatest psychologists, Walter Mischel. It’s not just about the marshmallow test—it’s autobiographical, too. He talks about his struggles with self-control and how he developed his experiments. It’s fascinating.” Read more...
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