"All this is from memory so it may not be exact, I fear I may have created a personal myth out of it to excuse my one-mallow performance in life. Actually I think I would have waited ti he was out of the room and rifled his drawers for the bag, another category perhaps."
There seem to be so many variables in this experiment. I agree with the ability to put off present pleasure as a key ingredient of success, but there was a tinge of being obedience being rewarded that I question. Most of the most interesting happy people I know are very disobedient to authority. Of course I am pretty skewed by my bias for people who are living in alternative ways. I love experiments like that since I like to pretend I have powers of inductive reasoning! Right! --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > Finding out if "life is here to enjoy" (tip O' the turban to > > Maharishi) or "life is here to annoy" is a person's underlying world > > view can predict their happiness level I suspect. > > Excellent way of putting it. I've always wonder what the fundamental > common denominator in people is, here's another way of dividing us up > that I read about. > > A child psychologist tried an experiment with every very young child > that came into his clinic to try and work out if there were any > fundamental personal differences that affect how we live our lives. > What he did was this; every child that he saw he offered a > marshmallow but then said that he had to nip out of the room for a > couple of minutes and but if they waited til he got back they could > have two marshmallows. > > I can't rememeber the exact ratio of forward planners to impulsive > types but 30 years later he contacted as many as he could and asked > them how their lives were going and what sort of successes they had. > All of the two marshmallow kids were homeowners with good > relationships and careers they enjoyed. The one marshmallowers didn't > do so well and were restless in life, never settling down, > unfulfilling careers, divorces etc. > > Quite an eye-opener, could it be we are set on a particular track > through society by something as obviously genetic as this? The > evolutionary aspects are obvious, in our hunter-gatherer heritage > both types of personality would have had their uses. In our modern > world (that was obviously built by the one-marshers, bastards) it > aint so easy! > > All this is from memory so it may not be exact, I fear I may have > created a personal myth out of it to excuse my one-mallow performance > in life. Actually I think I would have waited ti he was out of the > room and rifled his drawers for the bag, another category perhaps. >
