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Podcast: The Property Podcast
Episode: TPP396: How your ego is sabotaging your property investment dreams (and what to do about it)
Description: What is delayed gratification?Â
Back in the 1970’s a psychologist named Walter Mischel performed an experiment on children to monitor their behaviour.Â
He placed a marshmallow in front of them and told them if they didn’t eat that marshmallow by the time he came back in the room, they could have two.Â
You may have seen something similar doing the rounds on social media with parents trying a temptation test on their children.Â
The idea behind the experiment was to see if the children could resist having something pretty good right no...