This is a quick post just to share something I found interesting. You know, my ears perk up anytime I hear someone say, “the most important _______ that I heard in my whole life was…”. So a few posts ago, that was Nassim Taleb saying the most important advice he ever received was to get a profession that was “scalable”, where your income did not directly depend on how many hours you work.
I want to know how old the marshmallow kids were when Mischel did the experiment.
(Looks like they were 4 or 5 years old. This write-up says they were preschoolers: https://www.simplypsychology.org/marshmallow-test.html)