Biggest quality

quarta-feira, setembro 24, 2014 David Barradas 0 Comments

Jacoba Urist, The Atlantic

It began in the early 1960s at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School, where Mischel and his graduate students gave children the choice between one reward (like a marshmallow, pretzel, or mint) they could eat immediately, and a larger reward (two marshmallows) for which they would have to wait alone, for up to 20 minutes. Years later, Mischel and his team followed up with the Bing preschoolers and found that children who had waited for the second marshmallow generally fared better in life. For example, studies showed that a child’s ability to delay eating the first treat predicted higher SAT scores and a lower body mass index (BMI) 30 years after their initial Marshmallow Test. Researchers discovered that parents of “high delayers” even reported that they were more competent than “instant gratifiers”—without ever knowing whether their child had gobbled the first marshmallow.

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
― Lao Tzu

“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, To Students

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success”
― Constance Chuks Friday

I guess if you can control what you do you can set a goal an execute! If you don't control yourself it's impossible to execute you just drift.

That is why to participate in a sport, to be really good in a sport can bring the discipline and the work habits necessary to do anything in life.