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- Walter Mischel created the marshmallow experiment
- One marshmallow now or two later
- No distractions
- Pure agony
- Four year olds are much better at resisting their temptations
- Average time was 7-8 minutes
- Time resisting their temptations relates to how well they do in school
- People that waited the longest did better on the SAT
- 210 points differential
- The people that resisted their temptations longer are better behaved
- Waited Longer
- Better job
- Skinny
This American Life
This American Life podcast Back to School
- Cognitive development
- New Learning: Cognitive skills are not the only thing they need to focus on
- High School requires much more time than GED
- GED are preforming better than drop outs
- No where near high school graduates
- GED proves cognitive skills are the same as a high school graduate
- School is a pendulum between character and intelligence
- Non Cognitive skills
- Self control
- Self regulation
- delay gratification
- Huge Correlation between how long they waited and how well they are doing later in life
- Adverse childhood experiences you are more likely to have something wrong with you.
- Repeated stress get ingrained in the brain
- Constant stress does not let prefrontal cortex develop
- Embarrassed because she was placed in the “Wings Class”
- Created a set of problems from the way she grew up
- Non Cognitive skills you can learn
- Cognitive skills can not be taught
- Coach for non cognitive skills
- You can improve intelligence
- creates confidence
- From hearing “you can improve intelligence” gives a boost of confidence to learn more
- In a rat study
- parents licking and grooming pups created a sense of safety
- Secure attachment relation
- 2/3 of kids have a secure attachment
- better at dealing with people
- better in the classroom
- Non cognitive skills are just as important as Cognitive skills
- Parents suggesting what children should do from past experiences
- During sophomore year Kewauna changed
- One Goal class teaches psychological skills to students