The United States Just Took the Marshmallow Test. And Failed.
8 min readJul 9, 2020
Do you remember the Marshmallow Test?
It’s a famous experiment run by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel to test young children’s ability to delay gratification. The researchers placed kids in a room with a treat and gave them a choice: they could eat the treat, or they could wait fifteen minutes, at which time they could exchange it for a more desirable…