Walter Mischel on Self-Control
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In this excerpt from the event, What Marshmallows Can Tell Us About Self-Control, Walter Mischel, draws upon decades of compelling research and life examples to explore the nature of willpower, identifying the cognitive skills and mental mechanisms that enable it, and shows how these can be applied to life’s challenges.
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