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It just does not get any better than Christians helping Christians. Speaking of which, thank you again for being here

with me. Let's get started. Welcome back to ESM this morning. I hope things are going great for you,

or God has great plans for you. And I'm just so thankful that he's

blessed us with this 20 minutes or so together. I want to jump right in today and talk to you about

an experiment that was run on preschoolers back in 1972 at Stanford University. It's called

the marshmallow experiment. Maybe you've heard of it.

It's interesting that when it was conducted and all of the follow-up research led to some very definite conclusions, as experiments often do, and we will talk about those conclusions.

But there have been subsequent tests run afterwards that have in some ways mitigated those outcomes and put greater weight

on elements, external elements that weren't even considered before. As I've gone back through

the research, both from the 1970s and in more modern times, it all comes together to make a series

of points that in some ways contradict one

another, but in the end, compliment. So we're going to look at that. The first thing I will tell

you, just in case you learn nothing else today, you can say, I learned something today. There is no

E in marshmallow. It's marshmallow, not pronunciation-wise, but in terms of spelling. So you can use

that at a party or something and say,

boy, ESM is really, really helpful stuff. While we're at it, I'll give you another one that has

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