Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The temptation of a candy

This is a quiet afternoon. Apple flower fragrance, filled in the United States, Texas, a town primary school campus. One of a class of eight students, were taken to the Principal Teacher of the next to a big empty house. Windows of the bright shining, the birds, flying over the traces can be seen clearly, while the students hold down the strong Dior UK sense of curiosity, your breath waiting to happen all the time, the teacher led a strange middle-aged man walking away.
He looked kindly came between the children, give everyone a packaging made a very fine candy, and tell them you belong to this candy can be eaten at any time, but if I come back Who can insist later to eat, it will be two of the same candy as an incentive. Then he turned to leave together and teachers here.
Wait for a long, promise are distant, and the heart candies but Zhenzhen be absolutely sure to put at the front of each child.
Time one minute passed. This candy to lure children is also growing, along with the window of the apple flower fragrance, this temptation is almost irresistible.
There is a child off a fine, put sugar into his mouth and issued a click one39s tongue sound. Under his influence, there is some kids could not have been ripping out the exquisite. But there is still more than half of the children do everything possible to control themselves, there has been such a stranger to come back. It was a summer vacation is also more than 40 minutes long. But Stranger eventually achieve its own commitment to wait for those who pay child been duly rewarded.
In fact, this is a called the delay gratification psychological experiment. Later, the Stranger full track of these children for 20 years. He found, be able to Dior Bag delay gratification of students, mathematics, language score than those studentsaverage 20 points. Take part in work, they had not before the difficult bow out of the woods always be successful.
Readily available to resist the temptation to look through our efforts to get the promise, is not an easy task. Control in real life, and then encountered the same problem, perhaps it is not hard to make the right choice.
Posted by zhan at 06:15:33
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