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Time Matters

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

Introduction

In 1972, Stanford professor Walter Michel conducted a study on delayed gratification and willpower. Children were given the option of eating one marshmallow now or getting a second marshmallow if they could wait 15 minutes without eating the first one. In the clip from Igniter Media, the experiment is being conducted by a church in America for a sermon illustration. And their video is too cute. You have to watch it.

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