50 years ago in the early 1970s, two researchers at Stanford University did an experiment

noteworthy for its clever design, its extraordinary follow-up and results, and just how easily misunderstood and wrong it was.

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That's right. I want to talk for a couple minutes about the

marshmallow test, the Stanford marshmallow test, and then I want to get to a really important question. The marshmallow the several times in the early 1970s.

The conceited the experiment is super clever.

First, find out if a kid prefers pretzels or marshmallows,

but for the sake of this conversation and because it's so much more fun to say we'll talk about

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