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Before, that was available only for members.
After making videos free, number of paid members has increased!
Another "proof" of "doing well by doing good"
Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control - The Long Now
"Can “delay ability” be trained? Mischel thinks it can, if we understand how our mind works.
He and colleagues postulated a “Hot System” and a “Cool System” in the brain. (They are similar to Daniel Kahneman’s “System 1” and “System 2” in his book Thinking Fast and Slow.)
- The Hot System (Go!) is: emotional, simple, reflexive, fast, and centered in the amygdala. It develops early in the child and is exacerbated by stress.
- The Cool System (Know), on the other hand, is: cognitive rather than emotional, complex, reflective, slow, and centered in the frontal lobes and hippocampus. It develops later in the child and is made weaker by stress.
You can chill a hot object of desire by representing it to yourself in Cool, abstract terms.
Don’t think of the marshmallow as yummy and chewy; imagine it as round and white like a cotton ball. One little girl became patient by pretending she was looking at a picture of a marshmallow
and “put a frame around it” in her head. “You can’t eat a picture,” she explained. ...
If you don’t know how to delay gratification,you don’t have a choice.
If you do know how, you have a choice.”
The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel | Brian Johnson
video review: The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel - YouTube
Walter Mischel @columbia.edu
If you don’t know how to delay gratification,you don’t have a choice.
If you do know how, you have a choice.”
The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel | Brian Johnson
video review: The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel - YouTube
- Hot vs Cool (brain)
- U + Future U
- WillPower
- If-then
- Choice
Walter Mischel @columbia.edu
