Your future in a Marshmallow? What the book of the famous self-control test can tell us about success In the early 1960s, Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and his team conducted an experiment to examine self-regulation processes. Pre-schoolers were challenged with a dilemma; individually, in a room, they were given a choice between one marshmallow on the table that they could eat immediately (immediate gratification) or waiting for a better, but delayed reward, and getting two marshmallows

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... delayed gratification). This experiment is called the Marshmallow Test. What Mischel found with the experiment and its replications, as with the findings from other related research and its implications in real-world scenarios, is what you will read in the pages of the book "The Marshmallow Test-Understand Self-Control and How to Master It".