Emotional intelligence, Learning

Increase your ability to delay gratification

So what can you do to increase your ability to delay gratification? And why would you want to? Perhaps because if you want to be successful in life, you need to develop your determination and resilience muscles. Most successful people are good at: Delaying gratification. Resisting temptation. Not letting fear [...]

Emotional intelligence, General

Stanford marshmallow experiments

  You are probably aware of the Stanford marshmallow experiments with four-year-olds in the 1960-70s, studying the tricky subject of delayed gratification. What do we want? Gratification! When do we want it? Now! Walter Mischel, thought it a good idea to leave young children in a room, on their own, [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Now or later? Delayed gratification

What would you have done, at the age of 8, if somebody had put a tasty biscuit in front of you and gave you a choice: you could have that biscuit now or if you waited until that person returned from running a quick errand, you could have 2? What [...]