Introduction to Success

Have you ever wondered how success works? Or how some people can be so successful or how others can have the hardest time getting things done. Well, I can tell you. I will explain how some people can be destined to be successful and if your not successful, how you can change it. 

 

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive 

To understand what success is we need to know how our mind works. Cognitive thinking is how we do in school such as math, english, history, etc. It is everything that we can measure with a test. 

 

Success From a Young Age

What if there was one test that you would take when you’re five that could determine if you are successful in the future? Well, there is. Doctor Walter Machel’s Marshmallow study  to see if four year olds had the cognitive ability to understand the value of something greater in the future more than something now, basically if kids had self control and patients. What Dr Machel did was he took a large survey of four year olds and put them in a room with a marshmello and told them is they waited till they got back that they could have two marshmallows. eventually they switched to Oreos to try to entice them a little more. What they noticed is that most kids could wait but they squirmed a lot. Unfortunately, some kids failed and ate the cookie. What kids did to try to stop them from eating the cookie was covering their face or facing the opposite direction, one kid even kicked the table to get the cookie out of his face. 

 

Later Dr Machel wanted to see how the kids he tested were doing. He noticed that some of the kids who failed the marshmallow test weren’t doing so good so he studied into these kids a little more. He found out that the kids who ate the marshmallow or cookie had much lower SAT scores, GPA’s, and had a lot of more behavior issues. There was a 210 SAT score difference between the kids who did the best and the kids who did the worst.