Want a Marshmallow Punk? Well, do ya?!

Imagine you are 4 years old and a nice man offers you a yummy marshmallow but, if you wait while he runs a quick errand, he'll give you two marshmallows. Which would you choose?

A Stanford University study of children who were able to delay gratification-in the form of a marshmallow they'd been given to eat-with the promise that they'd be rewarded with an additional marshmallow if they resisted eating the first for fifteen minutes. Ten years later, the children who held out had grown up to be significantly more successful than those who had eaten their marshmallow immediately.

Don't Eat the Marshmallow Yet