Posted on 06/24/2019 7:46:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
It means that people who fail to make themselves valuable to others and society and therefor are poor are just as unable to manage money as they are to earn it.
It’s common sense that delaying gratification is crucial to curbing impulse buying or overspending as well as saving for the future. In other words delaying gratification is important to wealth building.
Reminds me of something that happened recently. Hubby and I see the same doctor. He came home and was all glowing because when the doc game him a question on math during some test for dementia or something he had the answer to the math question before doc finished it and the doc told him....you broke my test. I said....see that’s the difference between you and me. I wouldn’t have taken the stupid test to begin with. lol
Lindt is our everyday brand of choice. :)
Your family experience is the same as mine. Dad was a little kid, but Grandpa had a wife and an ill FIL to support during the Depression. He worked multiple jobs; he’d do pretty much ANYTHING legal, LOL!
“Sense of nuclear family, religion, and perseverance led this and other families to success in the long run, to achieve a piece of the American dream, and to see the offspring do better than the parents.”
Sadly, missing from SO many kids’ lives these days. Thanks, Feminists! Thanks Hippies! Thanks, Socialists!
*SPIT*
I am POWERLESS over Sour Cherry Balls, LOL! I’ll probably have a pretty awful life from here on out. ;)
That’s interesting! :)
It’s the same test actually: Are you disciplined and capable enough to hold marshmallow exactly far way from the fire for a longer time, rotating it it slowly and steady enough to get the golden brown color? Or you try to get too close to try to cook it quickly ? And so burn it with lots of neat flames and smoke?
What about those of us that have worked hard and delayed our gratification in so many aspects of our lives so we could retire early and then enjoy life to the fullest?
And what do I do NOW that I’ve spent a lifetime not WANTING stuff, and now I can have whatever I want, but still don’t WANT anything out of the ordinary?
Who speaks for US? *SMIRK*
P.S. And I don’t like marshmallows, either! Blech!
“Although they don’t come out and say it, white privilege mostly”
My first thoughts, too.
The original article was from The Atlantic, so I don’t know.
That's exactly what I was going to say. So the results of the first test were not wrong. People with poor impulse control go on to breed more of the same.
think the study redo has merit and I think it has an important conclusion: DO NOT HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX IF YOU ARE POOR.
IOW, one can tell the rich kids by their deferment of gratification. Ta-dah, same as the study from decades ago.
They’re measuring a child’s ability to delay gratification for a bigger payoff later measured against their success later in life. Then they normalize against every method and opportunity a child would have to learn this valuable lesson and, viola, the curve is flat.
Imagine if I were trying to show that eating healthy extended your life. But then I “corrected” for income (which makes it easier to eat healthy), parents who lived longer (some of which will simply be because of good genes but many will be because of healthy lifestyle habits they’ve passed down to their children), living locale (some locations simply promote a healthier lifestyle), etc. By the time I’ve corrected for all the factors that promote eating healthier, I’ve removed the very thing I was trying to measure!
This is terrible science.
Yeah. I’ve been very successful using common sense instead of relying on these studies that almost always seem to get reversed later on...
The ultimate delayed gratification? Live like Jesus now, and get untold rewards later...
This study drives Libs crazy.
What they can’t fathom is that distinctions in socio-economics leads to different mental-emotional responses. Doh.
If there is any truth to the economic basis for Marshmallow results, think about how it works with your dog: a dog will do anything if it knows the end result.
Rich kids can be confident of positive outcomes, whereas poor kids are trained to expect uncertainty.
Libs would have us remove marshmallows altogether, whereas the better solution would be to train poor kids to appreciate that the outcomes they seek will come.
But that means training their parents — and that’s the catch.
What if I don’t trust them not to steal the marshmallow.
What if they are a man dressed like a woman?
What if I hate marshmallows?
What if I wanted peanut butter on burn’t toast instead.
In all scenarios this is just one stupid damn test.
I call BS on this test. Delayed gratification is important to success. Finding no relations to it have to be BS social engineering. We have to control our impulses for greater success. To say self control and success are separated doesn’t pass a simple logic test.
Anyone have to study all weekend while your friends drank beer. How did it turn out.
Agreed. This is a BS study parameters and conclusion.
Agreed. This isn’t rocket surgery or brain science. Oops - in a way it is but the “researchers” screwed this completely up. So they must be neither.
Maybe I’m reading this wrong. It seems so much like simple common sense.
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