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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word
ID: #35030
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Marshmallow test
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By now a lot has been said about the marshmallow test. You guys probably know about this where children are asked you can eat this one marshmallow now or if you wait until I come back you can get two marshmallows. People talk about this in terms of the resolution that little kids have and how good they are at resisting temptation and stuff but there's something that's often overlooked here which is that one of the most common strategies that kids use was simply covering their eyes. Just clapping their hands over their eyes so they're not looking at the marshmallow. And it turns out that's a very effective strategy. And so when we think about minimizing temptations whatever your temptations are in life just think about the ways that you can actually contractually minimize that temptation so it's not there, not a fake thing or anything. Oh yeah, if it's in the back of the cabinet I won't do it but like actually get rid of the …..
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