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The Open University, the future is open. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a weekly podcast on happiness and work culture.

Hello there, this is Eat Sleep Work with Pete I'm Bruce

Dazley thank you for listening this is one of a series of short episodes

sort of Eat Sleep shorts I should call them they're just short pieces of insight from leading thinkers

on different areas.

So as ever, the theme is about happiness at work and successful work cultures.

So over the next few days I'm just going to be dropping those and feel free to share them.

You can always get a hold of us via our Twitter, which is if you search for eat, sleep, work,

repeat on Twitter.

And as ever, my own LinkedIn is wide open and ready for exploitation.

So today Angela Duckworth is the author of grit one of the best-selling business books of 2016

the corporate premise of grit is like an evolved version of the

Marshmallow test. The Stamford Marshmallow test was the work of Walter

Michel in the 1970s and the I guess the 280 character version of that is that a child was offered a choice

between one small reward in this case a marshmallow right now or two marshmallows after a 15 minute wait.

And remarkably, the ability to delay pleasure

has turned out to be one of the best predictors of success,

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