My friend Feross just wrote a really fascinating blog post showing a few videos about a study showing delayed gratification to be a high predictor of success. See one of the videos below:
Or read Feross’ post here:
It is a very interesting idea to think of “success” as the ability to postpone your rewards and have some sort of long term planning as opposed to living completely in the moment.
Hey Jeremy – I was reading Hacker News a few minutes ago and I saw a link to a story called “The Marshmallow Test – They Got It Wrong” just by chance. It’s really interesting and offers some criticism about the experiment.
http://www.dragosroua.com/the-marshmallow-test-they-got-it-all-wrong/
I think the criticism is even more interesting than the original experiment.