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		rightbyte 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why young parents should focus on building trust w... Historic returns is no promise of future returns. Terms and conditions apply. The marshmallow test is interesting. Rather than measuring mainly self control, it might be measure more or less only trust.

swayvil 5 months ago [–]

It could be a test of which you prefer: an actual-marshmallow or a dream-marshmallow.

It's only natural to prefer the first but I think we can be trained to prefer the second.

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