The Ultimate Marshmallow Test: Applying Buell Leadership Lessons
by Kath Courter, cohort 14 In 1972, Stanford Professor Walter Mischer, conducted a now famous experiment that tested children’s ability to delay gratification. Sitting before a marshmallow in an otherwise empty room, individual children were essentially told, If you don’t eat this marshmallow, when I come back, you can have another one. Then you’ll have two. …