This is Ryan with 300 words (or less) to make your Monday a little less taxing.
I’ve recently come across more information on Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow experiment of deferred gratification often mentioned on Feast of Fun.
In his experiment, Mischel sat a series of 4-year-olds down in a room and placed a marshmallow in front of them saying they could either eat that 1 marshmallow now or wait until he went away and came back with another so they could eat 2 marshmallows instead. The trick, the kids had to resist the torture in order to get a greater reward.
Heard many a time on the show, we know the kids who instantly ate the 1 marshmallow grew up to be Hitler, Stalin & Kawame Kilpatrick & those who waited became Oprah, Lady Gaga & Ru Paul.
BUT
Mischel also did the marshmallow experiment with Oreo cookies as well (something I wouldn’t have been able to resist) & came across a problem.
One kid picked up the cookie, twisted it, slipped the silky cream filling into his mouth & carefully put the cookie shell back into place.
The info is not public who this 4-year-old was, but does anyone have any guesses?
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