Joachim De Posada Talks About Delayed Gratification 105
grrlscientist writes "Here is a short talk in which Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification — and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat their marshmallow."
Marshmallows are easy.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And if you don't like marshmallows? (Score:2, Funny)
Hot grits?
Re:And if you don't like marshmallows? (Score:3, Funny)
I think 100% of study participants managed to avoid the temptation of dumping the hot grits down their pants
Re:yuck, Marshmallos (Score:5, Funny)
I could easily resist the marshmallow. I see it going like this:
"OK, gnick, we're going to place this beer right here in front of you. Your job is to..."
"I'm sorry - I wasn't listening. This beer is empty, can I have another?" *BURP*
Re:And if they just suck on the marshmallow (Score:5, Funny)
Washington won't eat the marshmallow and sneers at your plebian tastes.
Jefferson lights the marshmallow on fire, then lights other marshmallows from it.
Lincoln rips the marshmallow in half, then eats it, demonstrating that a marshmallow divided cannot survive.
U.S. Grant knocks the marshmallow on the floor in a drunken stupor. It's still under one of the White House sofas.
Teddy Roosevelt eats the marshmallow immediately, and asks you for another... while staring you down and carrying a rifle.
Calvin Coolidge waits until you give him the second marshmallow, then eats both without comment.
Franklin Roosevelt starts an government organization called Marshmallow Making Men, and soon has more marshmallows than he knows what to do with.
JFK doesn't eat either marshmallow, and what he later did with them, a containert of chocolate sauce, and Marilyn Monroe is lost to history.
Nixon has G. Gordon Liddy take your entire bag.
Jimmy Carter says "No thanks, I prefer peanuts".
Ronald Reagan waits, and eats both marshmallows, but only after getting Nancy's approval.
Bush Sr. says he won't eat the marshmallow, but does.
Bush Jr. eats the marshmallow immediately, and looks utterly and pathetically confused when he doesn't get the second one.
Obama notes the whiteness of the marshmallow and accuses the researchers of trying to set him up.
Re:And if they just suck on the marshmallow (Score:3, Funny)
Very nice, props to you sir. However, it seems you left out a few of my favorites.
Andrew Jackson eats the first marshmallow and declares that if you want to keep the second from him, you can enforce it with your army.
Rutherford Hayes eats his marshmallow just as you re-enter the room, and is awarded his prize only after you confer with your panel of co-researchers.
Grover Cleveland eats the first marshmallow, but gets his second when he comes back two days later.
William Howard Taft eats the marshmallow, then eats you, then gets stuck in the doorframe on the way out.
Warren Harding is dead when you come back.
You promise Herbert Hoover a second, but really just take away the first if he hasn't eaten it.
Gerald Ford tries to eat his marshmallow, but only manages to bite his tongue, fall down the stairs, and get shot at on the way out.
Re:And if they just suck on the marshmallow (Score:4, Funny)
I'm afraid Fox News didn't send me their list of talking points this week (I think Murdoch wants to charge for them), so I had to come up with that one all on my own. However, if you think there's any racism there, you're jumping at shado... oops, there I go again, right?
(In case anyone ELSE needs the joke explained, it's not implying that Obama is racist; it's implying that he's might be so concerned with image that he's afraid a black politician eating a white marshmallow would be read the wrong way, and paranoid enough to think that he's being given the marshmallow specifically for that purpose. Of course, considering Fox News, were the situation to come up he might actually be right.)